Then how does your sense of human make you wise?

閳?or proves that you are a wise person indeed?

I might laugh at jokes but the butt of those jokes would often be people. I might learn form the funny situations caused by their errors, but in reality, wouldn閳ユ獩 I be laughing at the instances of human folly?

Besides, I have seen no treatise, a paper, or any theory formalizing humor as a proper method of learning and advancing in knowledge or wisdom. I have no doubt seen works of literature, both poetry and prose, solely dedicated to tickling the funny bones of our imagination, but never ever have I heard, or seen, a philosopher telling a joke. Have you?

Then may be philosophy is, in its essence, all about seriousness of life, and dryness of skin and hair. And that if I tell a joke to a philosopher I might be the only one laughing at the delivery of the punch-line, to fill the silence.

Isn閳ユ獩 that where humor proves certain people wise, it also prove some others fool, and thus making it an unwise method of getting wiser?

Then how does your sense of human make you wise?

If you don't think some are generally fools, then everyone is right! Or tragically many are incorrect but it is not their fault.

Look to any existentialist, and you will find volumes on the absurd, if not irony and the comic as phenomena.

But, as dry as some may be, I must disagree. Humor is most high in analytic philosophy. It is a science closer to stand-up than anything else. It would be ABSURD to believe "that a double success is a failure" (Parfit). Philosophy is not even possible without this. You say "ABSURD!" and I could then argue back "so what!"

Then again, look to the origin of the word "idiot" and prove to me that anyone today is not one. Our "wisdom" is much different, if at all.

Then how does your sense of human make you wise?

It doesn't it makes me Morecambe.

Then how does your sense of human make you wise?

Stretches looks at the length of question.

Ignores question.

Yawns.

Gets 2 points

Then how does your sense of human make you wise?

I think it is the other way on

In that you have to be "wise" to have a good sense of humour

Then how does your sense of human make you wise?

I've read this before in a book.

No sh%26amp;t Sherlock

Then how does your sense of human make you wise?

nice lapsus !!

Then how does your sense of human make you wise?

True, but humor still does show wisdom. Even this kind of humor shows knowledge of the benefit of laughing at the misfortune and embracing beauty and luck. Do you see what I mean?

Then how does your sense of human make you wise?

I highly doubt that those are your own words but jokes do differntiate between fools and wise peopple to aa degree but no man is truly wise

Then how does your sense of human make you wise?

So, you haven't ever heard or seen a philosopher telling a joke? I beg to differ. Maybe you are talking about renowned philosophers %26amp; their works. I know nothing about them. So I can't refute or confirm anything. But I've seen real, living, walking-talking philosophers in my life, say my maternal grandfather for one, who had seen life up close and personal and had a great sense of humour. He was able to see a problem clearly as it really was, not as it appeared to us. And believe me, there would be vast difference between the two at times. He was a highly spiritual man and it was evident in his face. Just watching him filled one with love %26amp; wonder. He loved cracking jokes, if only to put us all at ease for he knew we were in awe of him.

Life is not all seriousness from which fun %26amp; games should be banished. That sounds like Aurengzeb, the Mughal Emporer of India. He hated music or other art forms. Just read about him next.

Finally, it is not a 'method' by which to acquire wisdom. I am ready to believe now that it's something you're born with or not...just like many other things.