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Truthstalker
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What is fun, considered philosophically?
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Ani_Ibi
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Do you not mean: What is ‘the fun’?
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freesoulhope
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Or why do we as organisms find something fun any how? What is it about a particulor bit of information that makes it funny. Is there a natural “funniness” about that information or is it all subjective. And if its subjective, why should i find something funny that you don’t?
Why the hell im i laughing! why is it funny!!! Are we insain, is that why we find things funny?
This is a strange phenomenon that i have yet to here a good scientific explanation for.
Now thats a brain buster of a philosophical question that i doubt any of you can answer!
:banghead:
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Truthstalker
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No, I mean fun. Define fun in scholastic terms.Do you not mean: What is ‘the fun’?
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Ani_Ibi
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What if I define fun in general semantics terms? Bwa-ha-ha! Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!
Oh! Oh! Nietzche on Fun!
Oh, I love my own jokes!
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Truthstalker
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You obviously missed “Fun spoke Zarathustra” and “Der Uberfun”. Nietzsche wrote these during his stand-up comedy days when he went around to night clubs frequented by philosophy students.What if I define fun in general semantics terms? Bwa-ha-ha! Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!
Oh! Oh! Nietzche on Fun!
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Ani_Ibi
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Och! Der Uberfun! What jolly times those were! And who could forget this:
Well that had me going, let me tell you. Never a dull moment. What a guy, that Nietzche!
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mdzialo1
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Incongruity. That’s why something is funny; it’s incongruous.
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cpayne
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I always loved Nietzsche’s farewell line in his comedy routines: “You are not laughing because you do not understand me because you are cretins not worthy of me. Goodbye, and come back soon!”
Did someone ask for “fun” in scholastic terms? I think it falls under the natural inclinations which are natural goods. In order, they are something like (1) life, self-preservation, health; (2) family, procreation; (3) knowledge, education; (4) socialibility, recreation, etc. Wouldn’t “fun” be a natural inclination to a natural good, under that fourth heading there?
I do think the poster who mentioned “incongruous” is on to something. As humans, there’s always a gap between our divine desires and our actual performance (which is why there are so many jokes about religion and sex). The incongruity is what strikes us as funny; in the best humor, we laugh at ourselves.
I’ve got a cousin who’s incongruous, but he never votes the way I want him to. (Ba-BAM!)
Did someone ask for “fun” in scholastic terms? I think it falls under the natural inclinations which are natural goods. In order, they are something like (1) life, self-preservation, health; (2) family, procreation; (3) knowledge, education; (4) socialibility, recreation, etc. Wouldn’t “fun” be a natural inclination to a natural good, under that fourth heading there?
I do think the poster who mentioned “incongruous” is on to something. As humans, there’s always a gap between our divine desires and our actual performance (which is why there are so many jokes about religion and sex). The incongruity is what strikes us as funny; in the best humor, we laugh at ourselves.
I’ve got a cousin who’s incongruous, but he never votes the way I want him to. (Ba-BAM!)
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Ani_Ibi
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Have we forgotten so soon that paragon of French wit, Monsieur Jean Paul Sartre?
Oh! And when we tired of that, to move onto that tried and true defender of jocularity, Ludwig Wittgenstein:
What good times we have all had sharing good wine, the lengthening Spring evenings, and mulling the thousand ways in which we were leading each other down the garden path.
Oh! And when we tired of that, to move onto that tried and true defender of jocularity, Ludwig Wittgenstein:
Not to forget Arthur Schopenhauer who said:
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Ani_Ibi
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More from good old Nietzche:
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