the difficulty with “who is your favorite philosopher”

I am pretty difficult about the question "who is your favorite philosopher", but this question is uniquely difficult. it’s not like asking who makes my favorite music, where I can just simply look up my favorite music and give the names of people who make it. there are philosophers who I deeply admire as people, and philosophers who I think are correct about most things, and that venn diagram can have very little overlap.

for example: I think Aquinas was a virtuous person, and I admire the way he lived, and I would endeavor to do likewise, however — I think he was wrong about many things he thought. an enormous amount. his character, however, is so clearly good that I believe if he were teleported to present day and didn't have a heart attack or stroke or develop a psychological disorder from culture shock, he'd get up to speed on a lot of stuff really fast.

on the other hand I agree with John Searle on a wide range of topics - probably most - yet he is a person who on top of what might be described as "a James Franco amount of sexual harassment cases" is known for being a notoriously dicky landlord, and is recorded as saying — these are his actual words from a public hearing of the Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board — that "the treatment of landlords in Berkeley is comparable to the treatment of blacks in the South." it's hard for me to admire someone I couldn't stand airbnbing from, nevermind living like. in this sense he is among my *least* favorite philosophers.

so the question is really bifurcated into "who I like as people" vs "who I think is most correct / least wrong" and these are very different things.