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Michael Schur on the Virtuous Life and Humor in Philosophy | It’s Pointing Right At You
The Daily Stoic
Can Philosophy Be Fun or Funny?
Can philosophy as a discipline be fun? Is that the question. I find it very funny personally, and that could be just because i was a comedy writer first,. And when you actually picture yourself on a barrelling train with no breaks and having a lever and making life or death decisions, i find it to be hilarious. A lot of the thought experiments that philosophers have come up with to talk about philosophy, i think it're very funny. The discipline itself is not meant to be funny - at least for people who don't understand it. But what's funny about it is, often in the if you take a step back and you imagine the the people really living their lives, they
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