[b]Jan Mieszkowski
Are your children texting about philosophy?
LMAO = Leibniz misread Aristotelian ontology
IMHO = Idealism makes Heidegger ornery
FWIW = Foucauldians won’t instrumentalize Wittgenstein
ROTFL = Rationalists obviously truly fear Lucretius[/b]
How idiotic or clever is this?
Classical aesthetics: Truth is beauty
Romantic aesthetics: Beauty is truth
Modernist aesthetics: What are you looking at?
Postmodern aesthetics: Who the fuck cares?
Hegel: I can only go on not being what I am not going to not have been
Kierkegaard: I can only go on sacrificing what I am in order to become what I will never have been
Sartre: I can only go out for so many coffees
Well, at least Jean Paul is down to earth.
French philosophy: Mind or body?
German philosophy: Will or whim?
British philosophy: Causal or casual?
American philosophy: Coke or Pepsi?
It’s still Coke, right?
When the apocalypse comes
Schopenhauer: you’ll wish it had arrived much earlier
Camus: you’ll realize it’s been here all along
Kafka: it’ll turn out to have been one day too late
On the other hand, what if it doesn’t come at all?
philosophy student: I thought we’d learn about truth!
art student: I thought we’d learn about beauty!
law student: I thought we’d learn about justice!
economics student: You want the truth? Beauty and justice won’t make you rich!
Let alone get you elected president.