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Ideas for 'Mahaprajnaparamitashastra', 'Psychophysical supervenience' and 'Concluding Unscientific Postscript'

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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / d. Philosophy as puzzles

7578	I conceived it my task to create difficulties everywhere [Kierkegaard]
	Full Idea: I conceived it my task to create difficulties everywhere.
	From: Søren Kierkegaard (Concluding Unscientific Postscript [1846], 'Author')
	A reaction: Nice. It is like Socrates's image of himself as the 'gadfly' of Athens. The interesting question is always to see what the rest of society makes of having someone in their midst who sees it as their social role to 'create difficulties'.

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 8. Humour

22047	Wherever there is painless contradiction there is also comedy [Kierkegaard]
	Full Idea: Wherever there is contradiction, the comical is also present. ...The tragic is the suffering contradiction, the comical is the painless contradiction.
	From: Søren Kierkegaard (Concluding Unscientific Postscript [1846], p.459), quoted by Terry Pinkard - German Philosophy 1760-1860 13
	A reaction: He is not saying that this is the only source of comedy. I once heard an adult say that there is one thing that is always funny, and that is a fart.