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Single Idea 6848
[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 8. Humour
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Full Idea
Humour, for me, is practically enacted philosophy.
Gist of Idea
Humour is practically enacted philosophy
Source
Simon Critchley (Interview with Baggini and Stangroom [2001], p.198)
Book Ref
Baggini,J/Stangroom,J: 'New British Philosophy' [Routledge 2002], p.198
A Reaction
This may be overstating it, as the funniest jokes may be the least philosophical, and remarks may be faintly amusing but very profound. Lear and his Fool make up a single worldview together.
The
15 ideas
with the same theme
[explaining the nature and sources of what is funny]:
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7494
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Laughter is mad; of mirth, what doeth it?
[Anon (Ecc)]
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8767
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Sorrow is better than laughter
[Anon (Ecc)]
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6211
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Laughter is a sudden glory in realising the infirmity of others, or our own formerly
[Hobbes]
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12171
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Absurdity is incongruity between correct and false points of view
[Schopenhauer]
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22047
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Wherever there is painless contradiction there is also comedy
[Kierkegaard]
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14833
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Comedy is a transition from fear to exuberance
[Nietzsche]
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18303
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Reject wisdom that lacks laughter
[Nietzsche]
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12318
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The female body, when taken in its entirety, is the Phallus itself
[Badiou]
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12169
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Since only men laugh, it seems to be an attribute of reason
[Scruton]
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12170
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Amusement rests on superiority, or relief, or incongruity
[Scruton]
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12172
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Objects of amusement do not have to be real
[Scruton]
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12173
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The central object of amusement is the human
[Scruton]
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6847
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Humour can give a phenomenological account of existence, and point to change
[Critchley]
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6848
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Humour is practically enacted philosophy
[Critchley]
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22701
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Jokes can sometimes be funny because they are offensive
[Jacobson,D]
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