Most metaphysicians rank rather low in my esteem. If I needed to choose just five:
Aristotle
Plato
Socrates
Descartes
Berkeley
To be fair to Socrates, we know literally nothing about his own views. You can hate Plato all you want, of course.
Hmm... this is tough. I'd probably come up with a list of somewhat obscure metaphysicians if I actually tried to do a list of my own. I actually have affection for most of the philosophers mentioned previous. Some of those listed aren't philosophers, of course (Rand, Marx, Rosenberg).
I suppose I hate Kant because he couldn't write and has made generations suffer through reading what he vomited onto a page.
