Ren
Seeker at heart
- MBTI
- INFJ
- Enneagram
- 146
Please share your own unfair fun-poking at the towering intellects of our history.
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Socrates: first of all, he was pretty ugly. But there's worse. He also uses sophistry quite a lot in his dialogues. Dialogues which, by a benevolent stroke of luck, happened to be written by his pupil.
Plato: seriously, Plato? The philosopher king? Don't you realise you just single-handedly created enlightened despotism in 360 BC?
Aristotle: pretty deep, pretty systematic, but god, he could have done with a writing course. The dude has as much stylistic elegance as a lorry crushing a field of beautiful tulips.
Plotinus: basically Plato, except he took LSD.
Aquinas: wow, such 5 ways to prove the existence of God (not 4), much brilliant, very Catholic super intellect.
Kant: even in heaven he keeps philosophising about the rational grounds for the colour of his pee. He wants to stop, but he Kant.
Hegel: was clever enough to turn a middle school fallacy into a whole philosophical system.
Kierkegaard: he thinks Abraham was awesome for being willing to murder his son, all in the name of 'faith in the voice of God'. Basically an early, foppish-Dane version of Bin Laden.
Schopenhauer: believes in Nirvana but also that women were animals "with long hair and short ideas". Apparently Nirvana is only for men.
Nietzsche: "If you go to meet woman, forget not thy whip". Being a virgin, he didn't know sex was possible without whips.
Foucault: I'm sorry, but name a single under-age boy who would feel safe in a room with this guy.
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Socrates: first of all, he was pretty ugly. But there's worse. He also uses sophistry quite a lot in his dialogues. Dialogues which, by a benevolent stroke of luck, happened to be written by his pupil.
Plato: seriously, Plato? The philosopher king? Don't you realise you just single-handedly created enlightened despotism in 360 BC?
Aristotle: pretty deep, pretty systematic, but god, he could have done with a writing course. The dude has as much stylistic elegance as a lorry crushing a field of beautiful tulips.
Plotinus: basically Plato, except he took LSD.
Aquinas: wow, such 5 ways to prove the existence of God (not 4), much brilliant, very Catholic super intellect.
Kant: even in heaven he keeps philosophising about the rational grounds for the colour of his pee. He wants to stop, but he Kant.
Hegel: was clever enough to turn a middle school fallacy into a whole philosophical system.
Kierkegaard: he thinks Abraham was awesome for being willing to murder his son, all in the name of 'faith in the voice of God'. Basically an early, foppish-Dane version of Bin Laden.
Schopenhauer: believes in Nirvana but also that women were animals "with long hair and short ideas". Apparently Nirvana is only for men.
Nietzsche: "If you go to meet woman, forget not thy whip". Being a virgin, he didn't know sex was possible without whips.
Foucault: I'm sorry, but name a single under-age boy who would feel safe in a room with this guy.
