Help! Great Thinkers Trade Day!

[salinea]

At the A Song of Ice of Fire board we're having a Great Thinkers Trade Day! (It started there in another thread : http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php?showtopic=20034&st=40) I'm Stranger, of course.

I'm giving away the French philosophers I don't like in exchange of foreign philosophers I like better! It's a riot!

I got Locke in exchange of Rousseau

I just got Kant AND Hume in exchange for Auguste Comte (these people people don't know the worth of thinking ^^)

Anyway, I need advice because I don't know enough of all these thinkers (only had one year of philosophy, and that was in high school damnit)

I RULEZ

Comments

[the-corbie.livejournal.com]

You got Hume?

That's pretty much game over right there as far as I'm concerned.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Looks like there's some doubt about this peculiar transaction (figures ^^), but Kant for Comte is definitly worth it as far as I'm concerned.

[the-corbie.livejournal.com]

I'd have traded anyone in the game to get Hume. Kant, not so much.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

I don't remembe much of Hume, let me hit the wikipedia. Huh. Scottish, heh? Well, I don't think anyone was giving him away in the first place, then... *confused*

And yeah, he looks pretty cool for an empiricist.

[aubrem.livejournal.com]

Damn, I would have taken Rousseau off of your hands - who did you give him to? Unfortunately I don't have much to trade - being american and all. ; )

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Locke! The only guy who wrote with State of Nature who didn't give me buttons when we studied him in classes.

Hey, there's plenty of American Thinkers! The others at the board wouldn't give me Hannah Arrendt or Chomsky so I can try you. Anyone French you're interested instead? ^^

[aubrem.livejournal.com]

oh gosh, I won't give you Chomsky and you can have Arendt over my dead and bleeding body - sorry. : /

hmmm. William James for De Tocquville? Milton Friedman for Voltaire? : D

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

*plans murder*

I'm not giving away Tocqueville unless it's for a very good bargain. Hmm Friedman is okay but not worth Voltaire, sorry. I've got still Pascal I'm willing to give cheap if you have other offers.

[eefster.livejournal.com]

Sadly I don't know enough to get involved. Most of the American philosophers I know have already been brought up and traded or rejected. :(

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't know very much either so I'm mostly grasping at straws. Already bought two philosophers I knew nothing about O_O

Anyway I don't think it's limited to philosophers. I mean, we've been trading Durkheim for exemple, who's more of a Sociologist. If there's an area of fundamental or social socience or History, etc., you know well, you can try that.

[bronze-ribbons.livejournal.com]

(Philosophy's a major blind spot for me -- even with diagrams, I just end up going "bzuh?" 99.9% of the time -- but am laughing my ass off reading this.)

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Glad to amuse ^^

You surprise me, given the kinds of essays you write!

[tiamatschild.livejournal.com]

Grab Nussbaum while you can! Grab her, grab her! I don't always agree with her, but she's a very interesting pro-gay rights classicist who has some intriguing essays on the subject of wages, work, and sex.

I think my ultimate conclusion off her argument is totally opposite of hers, but she's a very, very smart woman with a very sexy brain.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

sexy brain yay (and pro-gay rights classicist too!)

I made a new offer for her ^^ It's not like I need Pascal.