While going through old papers, I found this little gem: a list of philosophical jokes of the form, "What do you get when you cross X with Y?" I believe that all of these were created by John Shook and myself in the fall of 2000, while we were driving back from a conference in Austin. I'm also certain that there were more. And if any readers of this blog are inspired to add you own to the list, please feel free. Anyway, here they are:
What do you get when you cross ...
...G.E. Moore with a producer of flash-in-the-pan pop music groups?
Here is a band. Here is another.
...An Aristotelian virtue ethicist with Diana Ross?
A philosopher who looks for the mean between the Supremes
...Leibniz with a dervish?
The best of all possible whirls
...Hegel with Albert Camus?
Thesis, antithesis, Sisyphus!
...Schopenhauer with John Stuart Mill?
The Principle of Futility
...Kant with a maker of meat pastries?
The Categorical Impenada
...Kant with Freud?
The anal-ytic/synthetic distinction
...Augustine with a fisherman?
The City of Cod
...Kant with a careless deep sea diver?
The Kingdom of Bends
...Descartes with an Olympic backstroke champion?
Cogito, ergo swim
Just in case anyone was wondering, my personal favorite is the Categorical Impenada.
ReplyDeleteThis one's a bit silly, but here goes:
ReplyDelete... King David with Colin Archer?
The fiord is my shipyard, I shall not want.
Øystein: Very good!
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