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Books

Is This Some Kind Of Joke?

Tim Madigan laughs at platypi.

[A review of Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar… Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein; and Sci-Phi: Philosophy from Socrates to Schwarzenegger and Everything I Know I Learned from TV: Philosophy for the Unrepentant Couch Potato, both by Mark Rowlands.]

Kant’s Joke. Kant wanted to prove in a way that would dumbfound the common man that the common man was right: that was the secret joke of this soul. He wrote against the scholars in favor of the popular prejudice, but for scholars and not popularly.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 193 (Walter Kaufmann translation).

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