You're making this easy for me to vote. Being a dual major in philosophy and religious studies, I can tell you to avoid anyone who tells you something definitive about Søren Kierkegaard. The man was completely insane and wrote with so many different pseudonyms, no one has the slightest notion what he actually thought. There may be a method to his madness, but I honestly think it's just that: madness. There are so many loops and twirls and outright contradictions in his writing that only someone as insane as he seems to have been can possibly understand him.
Hume: avoid like the plague Kant: everyone studies Kant. Everyone. I like his aesthetics, even if I don't buy it. Descartes: I like him, but I think his "proof" for the existence of God is weak, at best, downright silly at worst. Plato: sucks Aristotle: much better Beauvoir: Existentialism without all the "women are a gaping hole" and "Hell is other people" that Sartre gives us.
I am voting yes because you are definitely a nerd. However, I am going to pick at one detail in your application: you wrote "favourite" instead of "favorite," yet according to your profile, you are American. Perhaps you are British and moved to the United States, so I am not judging you specifically, but I hate it when Americans use British spelling as an affectation.
Normally the younger aps are hard to pin down because it could go either way later on. You seem to aspire to bigger and better nerdiness in the future in addition to what you've already got going on and I like that!
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Hume: avoid like the plague
Kant: everyone studies Kant. Everyone. I like his aesthetics, even if I don't buy it.
Descartes: I like him, but I think his "proof" for the existence of God is weak, at best, downright silly at worst.
Plato: sucks
Aristotle: much better
Beauvoir: Existentialism without all the "women are a gaping hole" and "Hell is other people" that Sartre gives us.
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