Let's make fun of philosophers

[Pin]

Pythagoras sucked at math.

 

[Sidis Coruscatis]

Voltaire was interesting, but he was frankly a little bit candid about certain topics. Wo-ho-ho!

Why wouldn't Voltaire be potentially electrified by his work?

 

[Ren]

Why wouldn't Voltaire be potentially electrified by his work?

Now that you mention it, he was always amped up while he wrote.

A genuine ENTP philosopher. His archrival Rousseau was INFP with INFJ tendencies (Social Contract and Confessions are a strange blend of works).

 

[Sidis Coruscatis]

Now that you mention it, he was always amped up while he wrote.

Maybe he just needed to discharge his stress.

Simone Weil liked to live her philosophy behind a veil of parsimony.

 

[Ren]

Simone Weil liked to live her philosophy behind a veil of parsimony.

Haha. I enjoyed the Simone Weil reference. Have you ever read her work?

My brother is a big fan. He's written a number of articles on her work. Also on Chesterton.

 

[Sidis Coruscatis]

Haha. I enjoyed the Simone Weil reference. Have you ever read her work?

My brother is a big fan. He's written a number of articles on her work. Also on Chesterton.

No, but I can see why she would be the only great spirit of her time. I might set up a rendezvous with her one day.

 

[Ren]

Samuel Beckett should have written the play Waiting for Godel.

It's a play about how Einstein, Popper, Tarski are waiting for Godel to show up for a game of tennis doubles but he never turns up.

The next time they see him they brush aside his excuses with Kurt replies.

 

[Ren]

Nietzsche: "What does not kill me makes me stronger!"

Madness: *exists*

Nietzsche:

 

[Ren]

Aristotle: "the First Cause cannot itself be caused, hence God exists and he is timeless"

Kant: *Third Antinomy*

Aristotle:

 

[Pin]

Aristotle: "the First Cause cannot itself be caused, hence God exists and he is timeless"

Kant: *Third Antinomy*

Aristotle:

I need to learn more about Kant.

 

[Ren]

I need to learn more about Kant.

Deleuze gives great insight into Kant. Check it out (there are subtitles available):

 

[just me]

@Ren
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Where's Old Testament God when you need him?

Some words are best left unspoken.

 

[Ren]

Deleuze gives great insight into Kant. Check it out (there are subtitles available):

@Pin Did you watch?

Time to get your Kant homework done buddy!

 

[Ren]

Lol

A pretty easy one but oddly enough it is quite funny

 

[Ren]

I think reducing Hegel's philosophy to a bagel is strangely apt in its own twisted way, because Hegel is all about the circle: thesis-antithesis-synthesis-thesis-antithesis-synthesis-thesis....

Anyway, I'm probably overthinking this.

 

[Ren]

I'm surprised no one(at least to my knowledge) has mentioned Francis Bradley yet. But at the moment I can't think of a good Bradley joke...nothing that appears is ever what it seems, I guess

Why specifically surprised at the non mention of Bradley? There's a lot of philosophers we haven't mentioned here.

If Gilbert Ryle saw this thread... boy would he get riled up!

 

[Ren]

I remember reading about the frustrations his philosopher peers would have with him.

• There's also this fun description: "Bradley was a leading figure in this movement of original reappropriation of alien ideas, which he explicitly promoted as the sole antidote to dogmatism and intellectual sclerosis " (ref:https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bradley/)
• Also I remember hearing quite a few Bertrand Russell jokes in school in the past, I just assumed a natural link to joking on his predecessor

I mean... aliens, man...aliens...lol ok I'm done

Still trying to come up with a Bradley joke Maikl... I haven't forgotten about you

 

[Ren]

Heidegger: *Writes Being and Time and basks in the glory*

Wittgenstein: "All metaphysical writing is nonsense"

Heidegger:

 

[Krypton]

Nietzsche: "What does not kill me makes me stronger!"

Madness: *exists*

Nietzsche:

Nietzsche never went mad, he just gained 5D philosophical insight.

 

[Sidis Coruscatis]

Nietzsche never went mad, he just gained 5D philosophical insight.

Nietzsche: “Madness is rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.”

Also Nietzsche: "I'm rare and special lol"