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D&D and the Great Philosophers
Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 7:21 am
by Aramis
Even the great minds grappled with the difficulty of playing paladins
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http://existentialcomics.com/comic/23
Their discussion was eerily reminiscent of ones we used to have as teenagers
Re: D&D and the Great Philosophers
Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 1:41 pm
by kreider204
Ha, thanks! I'm a philosophy professor; I'll share this with my fellow philosophers / geeks.
Re: D&D and the Great Philosophers
Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 5:47 pm
by Lurker
Aramis wrote:Even the great minds grappled with the difficulty of playing paladins
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http://existentialcomics.com/comic/23
Their discussion was eerily reminiscent of ones we used to have as teenagers
Well as my favored class is a paladin, I consider myself in good company there !
Re: D&D and the Great Philosophers
Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 8:30 pm
by Treebore
They just need a little Amter in their lives...
Re: D&D and the Great Philosophers
Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 10:07 pm
by Lord Dynel
Pretty funny!
Re: D&D and the Great Philosophers
Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 10:53 pm
by kreider204
I love that poor Kant is just trying to play the game, while the rest are just screwing with him ...
Re: D&D and the Great Philosophers
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 7:14 pm
by Fiffergrund
I'm with Kant. But he should have flipped the table.
Re: D&D and the Great Philosophers
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2014 8:18 pm
by JediOre
By the end, I was a frustrated as Kant.
Re: D&D and the Great Philosophers
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2014 8:20 pm
by kreider204
JediOre wrote:By the end, I was a frustrated as Kant.
I suspect D&D would be only one of Kant's many frustrations ...
Re: D&D and the Great Philosophers
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2014 4:00 pm
by JediOre
kreider204 wrote:JediOre wrote:By the end, I was a frustrated as Kant.
I suspect D&D would be only one of Kant's many frustrations ...
I'm very rusty on my philosophers, but of the lot that was in that comic, I felt a strong kinship with Kant. I'll have to brush up on him. Paladins are great and orcs ARE evil because the book says so!
Re: D&D and the Great Philosophers
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2014 4:44 pm
by kreider204
To be fair, the comic doesn't represent philosophy very widely. Everyone other than Kant comes from a fairly narrow subset of the philosophical traditions, so it's really contrasting two philosophical styles rather than several (as it might seem to). I would have liked to have seen John Stuart Mill, John Locke, Mary Wollstonecraft represented - then Kant really would have his hands full.