![]() ![]() Klein, but, please, be aware of the broader implications of your amusement. It is in this sense that a short survey of all the schools of philosophy that treats each one as a subject for jokes can be located smack dab in the mainstream of the best Anglo-American philosophical thought and ought be considered quite profound in its own right. Indeed, the genius of Anglospheric philosophy-as well as the reason that all comedy can be considered conservative-is that we find the pretensions of philosophers, intellectuals, and their ilk to be laughable. ![]() But in the Anglosphere we have been fortunate enough to reject such Rationalism from Jump Street and so have avoided the most deletirious effects for the most part. You end up estranged from God and sunk in a suicidal slough of despond. In secular Europe and among American intellectuals we see what can happen if you take this notion at face value. This is, after all, the Age of Reason, the central promise of which is that simply by force of intellect men can arrive at certain truths about the world, that revelation comes from Reason rather than from faith. There is something of a risk attendant on such a funny book, that folks will miss the entirely serious point that it makes. Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein, Plato and a Platypus. Dmitri: This clarifies everything we've been talking about.ĭmitri: What you call "philosophy." I call "a joke." ![]()
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