how would philosophy/the world be difft if kant had been voed out of the big brother house in the 7th week in like 1768?

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answers on both sides of the paper please

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 12 June 2003 09:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, hold on there, fella...who are the other participants?

What's with the (I'm assuming) irritation w/Kant, btw?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 12 June 2003 09:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Well I wouldn't have picked him as an option merely because the German tutor pronounced his name Cunt, and then I wouldn't have had to do tutorials with a German neo-nazi who was the first person I ever saw word process an essay and used this as an excuse to write very very short essays which explained that for the greater good everyone should be on pain of death for any minor infraction, which led me and the tutor to draw ranks agin him and me feel like I was learning lots when actually I was pretending to have a Maffs heavy term so I did less essays and hence I never really got my head round Kant in any significant way that involves memory beyond the fact that he was the serious looking bloke with the catagorical imperative.

So that might have been different. (Who would have been left in the house).

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 12 June 2003 09:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Philosiphy Big Brother! Will the last person out of the house please Locke up!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 12 June 2003 09:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Philosophy Big Brother 1768 could concievably have Kant, Diderot, Tom Paine, Hume, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Voltaire and Hakuin Zenji.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 12 June 2003 09:40 (twenty-three years ago)

(Will the first one in the house please shut Locke up - haha).

Day 25 in the Big Brother house - Bishop Berkeley and David Hume are making bread in the kitchen. Kant and Hegel are in the hot-tub while Descartes is still in bed. Who goes - YOU DECIDE.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 12 June 2003 09:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Have all the women been voted out already?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 12 June 2003 09:43 (twenty-three years ago)

I wouldn't wish any woman to have stay in the same house as an assclown like Rousseau.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 12 June 2003 09:46 (twenty-three years ago)

WITH an assclown like Rousseau, I mean!

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 12 June 2003 09:48 (twenty-three years ago)

What's with the (I'm assuming) irritation w/Kant, btw?

He keeps pissing in the house well.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 12 June 2003 09:50 (twenty-three years ago)

don't think he would have participated because he would have thought the idea was 'vulgar'.

if he was forced in the house he would have been evicted in the first week, not the 7th or he would have won as he would have been into his own thoughts too much to communicate with anyone. so ppl would have though this to be either dull or fascinating (will he engage with anyone? surely he will, he must not go).

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 12 June 2003 10:15 (twenty-three years ago)

he was a very tidy and orderly man = he wd have not been voted out early

apparently his lectures were v.funny and full of digressions (ok i read this once and it seemed so unlikely that it stuck in my mind)

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 12 June 2003 10:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Could he cook, cos that would keep him in.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 12 June 2003 11:02 (twenty-three years ago)

INSTEAD OF SAYING "I THINK THIS SITUATION IS QUITE IMPLAUSIBLE" ANSWER THE QUESTION!!

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 12 June 2003 11:09 (twenty-three years ago)

But he would have been voted out like that by the fickle British female public because he LOOKED like such a weirdo, from that picture mark posted once.

― Sam (chirombo), Thursday, 12 June 2003 11:11 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.hkbu.edu.hk/~ppp/img/kant(rednose).jpg

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 12 June 2003 11:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Philosophy / the world would not be different because to my knowledge Kant's work was not all done in one seven week period when he had no access to and indeed was not allowed by the rules of the game to write anything.

If you want to know what the shape of world philosophy without Kant would be then I reckon Hegel would have taken up a lot of the slack.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 12 June 2003 11:16 (twenty-three years ago)

But Hegel would have been too busy hanging around trendy taverns in Stuttgart and having his portrait printed in Heat periodical.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 12 June 2003 11:19 (twenty-three years ago)

''he was a very tidy and orderly man''

that means he would have been voted out early.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 12 June 2003 11:26 (twenty-three years ago)

pete are you saying that being in big brother has the same effect on someone as NOT being in big brother?

(julio you don't even watch big brother: tidy and orderly ppl always do quite well)

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 12 June 2003 11:37 (twenty-three years ago)

No, but I have a feeling it would have less of an effect on an academic and a philosophy and quite possibly less of an effect of their actual work than it might a hairdresser who wants to be a TV presenter.

Perhaps a corrolary to your question would be what aspects of Kant's philosophy would be different if he had been in the Big Brother house (which is simlar to the Jane Austen question, How would Fanny Priuce have reacted if she had been given her own six-part prime time sitcom halfway through the events of Mansfield Park)..

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 12 June 2003 12:25 (twenty-three years ago)

''(julio you don't even watch big brother: tidy and orderly ppl always do quite well)''

ah...

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 12 June 2003 12:30 (twenty-three years ago)

TOM PAINE MUST GO!!

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 12 June 2003 13:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know about the question but he probably got kicked out because others thought his mania of leading every conversations at supper was very irritating.

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Thursday, 12 June 2003 14:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Berkely's obsession with tar water would lead to his near-instant eviction

― Ferg (Ferg), Thursday, 12 June 2003 17:12 (twenty-three years ago)

http://rarara.v21hosting.co.uk/photos/kant.jpg

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 12 June 2003 19:58 (twenty-three years ago)

(I am sure I asked 'what would Kant make of Big Brother?' on here [ie the world] at some point, I seem to have misplaced it.)

― Cozen (Cozen), Friday, 13 June 2003 11:48 (twenty-two years ago)

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