Posts Tagged ‘philosophers’
Chicken joke: Al-Kindi
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Al-Kindi: First let me see what the Ancients had to say about it.
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Tags: Arab, medieval, Muslim, philosophers, theologians
Chicken joke: Rumi
Today’s chicken joke quizzes the 13th-century Muslim poet and philosopher called Mawlānā Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad ar-Rūmī, or Rumi for short. Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Rumi: It was invited in from the road to the house but it clucked out some excuse. Now the chicken is angry with the road.
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Tags: 13th century, Islam, medieval, Muslim, mystics, Persian, philosophers, poets, Rumi, Sufis
Chicken joke: Boethius
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Boethius: The proceedings of the chicken, so my nurse Philosophy hath taught me, took their cause from the stability of the divine mind, which disposeth of all things in due order.
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Tags: Christian, medieval, philosophers, Roman
Chicken joke: Foucault
Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was a French philosopher and all-around intellectual whose work has perhaps been more often cited than understood. Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Michel Foucault: The discursive practices of the farm, which led to the development of chicken wire, the fenced barnyard, and the institution of the chicken coop, also […]
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Tags: 20th century, Foucault, French, philosophers, postmodern
Chicken joke: Comte
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Auguste Comte: This effort to explain and justify quasi-intentional actions of an animal (probably a fetish of some kind) indicates that the questioner is still mired in the theological phase of development and is probably incapable of comprehending the positive philosophy, which is the destiny of mankind.
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Tags: 19th century, Comte, French, philosophers, positivism
Chicken joke: Zeno of Elea
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Zeno of Elea: To prove it could never reach the other side.
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Tags: ancient, Greek, philosophers, skepticism
Chicken joke: Nietzsche
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Friedrich Nietzsche: Because if you gaze too long across the Road, the Road gazes also across you.
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Tags: 19th century, German, Nietzsche, philosophers, psychologists, wish-I-thoughta-that
Chicken joke: Heraclitus
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Heraclitus: Because she could not cross it twice.
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Tags: ancient, Greek, Heraclitus, philosophers
Chicken joke: Xenophon
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Xenophon: Because it was the wrong road. He needed to find a way back to the coast.
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Tags: ancient, generals, Greek, philosophers, soldiers, Xenophon
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