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<![CDATA[Existential Comics]]> Follow Existential Comics, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/existential-comics Mon, 02 Oct 2023 13:45:34 +0200 <![CDATA[The Greatest Ambition of Philosophy]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_7222kUb4EYc58v71dCn6bG

PERSON: " "

PERSON: "You intent to find the meaning of life?"

PERSON: "You intend to understand the thing in-itself?"

PERSON: "You intend to ground math in pure logic?"

PERSON: "Impossible!"

PERSON: "It can't be done!"

PERSON: "seven years ago"

PERSON: "three years ago."

PERSON: "Quick break to watch some football..."

PERSON: "Well, it's the kind of book that rewards re-readings, so perhaps i'll start again at the beginning."

PERSON: "Present day."

PERSON: "What...are you serious?"

PERSON: "I have finished my work...it is done."

PERSON: "So what will you do now?"

]]> Mon, 25 Sep 2023 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_7222kUb4EYc58v71dCn6bG <![CDATA[The Emperor's New Clothes]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_7DTrUG5pWN0Soxzwoq1nFt

PERSON: " "

PERSON: "Am i not dressed beautifully?"

PERSON: " ::::(-1 344)Perfect, i will take them."

PERSON: "yes, emperor, wonderful!"

PERSON: "Amazing clothes!"

PERSON: "But nietzsche, they are right, he is wearing clothes."

PERSON: "If the majority of society agrees, isn't that the meaning of the word? Aren't you the one who said “there are no facts only interpretations”?"

PERSON: "How so?"

]]> Mon, 18 Sep 2023 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_7DTrUG5pWN0Soxzwoq1nFt <![CDATA[Philosophy at a Red Light]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_4yiZiekJVeLHOFESPuQWsX

PERSON: "Just go, Kant, there is no one around. "

PERSON: "The light is red, that's against the rules!"

PERSON: "What?! Are you out of your mind de Beauvoir?"

PERSON: "But we are not machines Kant, we are human beings! Don't you see that? We cannot fully relegate our decisions to any rule or we lose our freedom."

PERSON: "But rationally..."

PERSON: "Also, you are holding up traffic and the empiricists are starting to get angry."

PERSON: "Fine, just this ONCE i will act in such a way that i cannot, at the same time, will that it becomes a universal maxim..."

]]> Mon, 11 Sep 2023 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_4yiZiekJVeLHOFESPuQWsX <![CDATA[Seize the Means of Production]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_5tI8RFPU-lKG0dX84dnP8Y

PERSON: "Alright guys, this is it. The means of production are inside this factory, but look out, they are heavily guarded."

PERSON: "watch out! "

PERSON: "Keep perfectly still, the bourgeoisie's vision is based on movement."

PERSON: "Of course."

PERSON: "This is it, we've got it."

PERSON: "Now what?"

PERSON: "Easy, now we decide amongst ourselves what a post capitialist society should look like."

]]> Mon, 04 Sep 2023 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_5tI8RFPU-lKG0dX84dnP8Y <![CDATA[Philosophy Cop]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_5OM1IvAr6VxrkdRKkm2PJP

PERSON: " "

PERSON: "Philosophy cops, you are under arrest!"

PERSON: "That's not the same! He is coercing us with a gun."

PERSON: "Well..."

PERSON: "He offered you a free choice too: the money or your life. Choose then! "

PERSON: "Save it! You are going away for a long time."

PERSON: "So, are you guys going to arrest me, or...?"

PERSON: "Why would we arrest you?"

PERSON: "Yeah, your philosophical outlook is perfectly clear. You want money and are taking it."

PERSON: "You can't do this!"

]]> Mon, 28 Aug 2023 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_5OM1IvAr6VxrkdRKkm2PJP <![CDATA[Thomas Hobbes and The King]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_6Gxjz7EZPJ2XHnycKeoCpf

PERSON: "Thomas Hobbes, welcome to the King's court. We are impressed by your philosophy."

PERSON: " "

PERSON: "Well, in the state of nature, without rules and order, mankind would lead lives that are nasty..."

PERSON: "Oh, hold on, one more thing Hobbes..."

PERSON: "Yes?"

PERSON: "Explain it while standing on one leg."

PERSON: "Um...okay..."

PERSON: "...so...so you see...in order to attain security and peace in advanced civilization..."

PERSON: "Make him bark like a dog!"

PERSON: "Go on, do it Hobbes! Or i'll abdicate the Monarchy and leave the people to govern themselves!"

PERSON: "This is still...better... than the alternative."

PERSON: "HahaHahHa. What do you think of your philosophy now?"

]]> Mon, 21 Aug 2023 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_6Gxjz7EZPJ2XHnycKeoCpf <![CDATA[The Interrogation]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_5CYoS1vtizOe4DA87rvhPr

PERSON: " "

PERSON: "I'll never tell you!"

PERSON: "The...philosopher... who is he?"

PERSON: "You won't like the Philosopher."

PERSON: "He's there, he's all yours."

PERSON: "Uh...not really."

PERSON: "Well, let's give it a try, shall we?"

PERSON: "many hours later..."

PERSON: "You are right, according to my rationality i must co-exist with others and behave in a consistent way according to universal duty."

PERSON: "I'm ready to confess and tell you where i planted the bomg."

PERSON: "What? The bomb exploded weeks ago. You are going to prison."

]]> Mon, 14 Aug 2023 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_5CYoS1vtizOe4DA87rvhPr <![CDATA[Alien Landing]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_52X9T6zgeTFuGkz6RCC25z

PERSON: " "

PERSON: "Actually, my associate makes a good point. We've taken a cursory look at your society, and well..."

PERSON: "Let's just say we think your leaders are probably... what is the word?"

PERSON: "So you also think they are imbeciles?"

PERSON: "So why do you put them in charge of the guns?"

PERSON: "Yes, everyone does."

PERSON: "Yeah, i think we made the right call. From now on let's go with the philosophers first. Leaders are overrated."

PERSON: "Well...how long do you have?"

]]> Mon, 07 Aug 2023 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_52X9T6zgeTFuGkz6RCC25z <![CDATA[Camus on a Date]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_422waHb6Asw3Mq2h3ehXEp

PERSON: " "

PERSON: "The first question we all must answer is this: why live? Do we not need to answer this question before all other questions can be asked?"

PERSON: "Well, i could do that, or i could kill myself."

PERSON: "Um...excuse me?!"

PERSON: "Wait so...before you will come up to have “coffee” i must justify my very existence?"

PERSON: "Without justifying our existence in this absurd world, how can we ask, let anlone answer any further questions?"

PERSON: "Alright, i guess i'll give it a shot."

PERSON: "ten hours later..."

PERSON: "Okay....Hegel says we all take part in a great world historical process that improves and perfects ideas to complete history. Surely this gives some meaning to our existence?"

PERSON: "Okay...uh...i think i'm ready for that coffee..."

PERSON: "Actually i've realized that meaningless pleasure isn't enough to overcome ennui, and also i'm pretty tired, so..."

PERSON: "But why must we take part? The world is absurd, perfect or not."

]]> Mon, 31 Jul 2023 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_422waHb6Asw3Mq2h3ehXEp <![CDATA[Sisyphus On Strike]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_44w4t5D8VNbe9WSSr4-0sP

PERSON: " "

PERSON: "No can do Zeus, I'm on strike."

PERSON: "At the very most you give a small amount of shallow entertainment to us gods when we watch you suffer as we eat our dinner!"

PERSON: "Nevertheless, i'm on strike until i get my demands."

PERSON: "Your demands? What demands could you possibly have?"

PERSON: "I demand...."

PERSON: "....a smaller boulder!"

PERSON: "Those are my demands."

PERSON: "later..."

PERSON: "Ugh, another re-run. You have to do something about this strike Zeus."

PERSON: "Nah, we've seen this one. It's the one where he pushes the boulder up the hill."

PERSON: "We could just give it to him, there are plenty of smaller boulders over there..."

]]> Mon, 24 Jul 2023 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_44w4t5D8VNbe9WSSr4-0sP <![CDATA[Hulk Think]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_6t1iPehiXRq68qfTAM-Smm

PERSON: " "

PERSON: "I wouldn't do that if i were you..."

PERSON: "Oh yeah? Why not?"

PERSON: "Enough, just give me your money!"

PERSON: "Because you'll make me angry, and you won't like me when i'm angry!"

PERSON: "Now i realize, you are as much a victim as me in this crime. It is irrational of me to get angry at you personally."

PERSON: "The greater crime is a society that is wealthy enough for all to have their needs met, but organized in such a way that men like you still feel they must resort to violence to survive."

PERSON: "So why wouldn't i like you when you are angry? You seem cool to me."

PERSON: "Some find me quite pretentious."

]]> Mon, 17 Jul 2023 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_6t1iPehiXRq68qfTAM-Smm <![CDATA[Who Wants to be a Philosopher?]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_7F9Trn8Gkyclw3HFUzDTIP

PERSON: " "

PERSON: "Welcome, Meno."

PERSON: "Wait, so we don't win any money?"

PERSON: "No. True philosophers don't talk money. First question. What is virtue?"

PERSON: "a. the capacity to govern men b. a multiplicity of things c. Wisdom D. When you are nice to dogs and stuff like that."

PERSON: "Hmm, i'm going to say “c. Wisdom”"

PERSON: "A true philosopher would know they aren't confined by multiple choices. Next up is Protagoras."

PERSON: "Wrong, the correct answer is “i don't know”. "

PERSON: "What, that wasn't one of the choices!"

PERSON: "Okay, what is, i dont know, the nature of the universe?"

PERSON: "Well, man is the measure of all-"

PERSON: "That's not what it said on the card! It said “everyone is an idiot”."

PERSON: "Look, i'm just reading what's on the card."

PERSON: "Is protagoras not part of “everyone”? You lose, idiot. Once again, the winner is me, Socrates."

]]> Mon, 10 Jul 2023 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_7F9Trn8Gkyclw3HFUzDTIP <![CDATA[The Philosophy Gym]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_6zbz9Im5TazgBC78OgjhDM PERSON: " "

PERSON: "Good job brother, now let's hit the showers and cool that big brain off."

PERSON: "What is that guy doing?"

PERSON: "He is working on virtue."

PERSON: " "

PERSON: "Good job brother, now let's hit the showers and cool that big brain off."

PERSON: "What is that guy doing?"

PERSON: "He is working on virtue."

PERSON: " "

PERSON: "Look at Zeno over there, his virtue is so strong he doesn't even admire his brain in the mirror as he works out."

PERSON: "It takes years of training to get your virtue that strong, few can ever do it..."

PERSON: "Yeah, but...i'm mostly just trying to get smart to impress girls, do i really need virtue?"

PERSON: "I don't know if that makes sense, doesn't the brain..."

PERSON: "What?"

]]> Mon, 03 Jul 2023 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_6zbz9Im5TazgBC78OgjhDM <![CDATA[Wittgenstiein vs Socrates]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_6i-dN98eeFp3-fx8LWuXng PERSON: "The only thing i know is that i know nothing. "

PERSON: "Who are you?"

PERSON: "I am Wittgenstein, a philosopher from 2000 years in the future."

PERSON: "Then, in addition to knowing every fact in existence, you would have to know an additional fact: that there were no more facts."

PERSON: "The only thing i know is that i know nothing. "

PERSON: "Who are you?"

PERSON: "I am Wittgenstein, a philosopher from 2000 years in the future."

PERSON: "Then, in addition to knowing every fact in existence, you would have to know an additional fact: that there were no more facts."

]]> Mon, 26 Jun 2023 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_6i-dN98eeFp3-fx8LWuXng <![CDATA[Nietzsche On Women]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_4chlhh74uL895ZnUTwRGH7 PERSON: "Become who you are. Do what only you can do. Be the master and the sculptor of yourself! "

PERSON: "And what is that?"

PERSON: "I will dedicate my life to hating women!"

PERSON: "...what."

PERSON: "You should only hate women as a sort of hobby, on the side."

PERSON: "You are so wise!"

PERSON: "So i shouldn't spend my life hating women?"

PERSON: "Become who you are. Do what only you can do. Be the master and the sculptor of yourself! "

PERSON: "And what is that?"

PERSON: "I will dedicate my life to hating women!"

PERSON: "...what."

PERSON: "You should only hate women as a sort of hobby, on the side."

PERSON: "You are so wise!"

PERSON: "So i shouldn't spend my life hating women?"

]]> Mon, 19 Jun 2023 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_4chlhh74uL895ZnUTwRGH7 <![CDATA[G.E. Moore's Nightmare]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_7-u7RGFrIMtWsGk81fO-bN PERSON: " "

PERSON: "How do we know? I have the proof of the external world right here in my pocket..."

PERSON: "Wait, how do you have four hands?"

PERSON: "Oh my god! I had a terrible dream."

PERSON: "What happened?"

PERSON: "Thank god it was only a dream, and in reality we can always tell the difference between dreams and reality."

PERSON: " "

PERSON: "How do we know? I have the proof of the external world right here in my pocket..."

PERSON: "Wait, how do you have four hands?"

PERSON: "Oh my god! I had a terrible dream."

PERSON: "What happened?"

PERSON: "Thank god it was only a dream, and in reality we can always tell the difference between dreams and reality."

]]> Mon, 12 Jun 2023 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_7-u7RGFrIMtWsGk81fO-bN <![CDATA[The Invention of Agriculture]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_5-3G8gTcWEeGZMehmtHS8- PERSON: "Hey, i had this idea: what if instead of foragine, we intentionally plant a lot of food all in the same place, to make it easier for us. "

PERSON: "I will consult the spirits and look into the future to see what will happen."

PERSON: "Hey, i had this idea: what if instead of foragine, we intentionally plant a lot of food all in the same place, to make it easier for us. "

PERSON: "I will consult the spirits and look into the future to see what will happen."

]]> Mon, 05 Jun 2023 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_5-3G8gTcWEeGZMehmtHS8- <![CDATA[500th Comic]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_4Xo-WyLRupSu4sICfMfkNm PERSON: "Neat."

PERSON: "Why is doing a communist revolution so hard... "

PERSON: "I am exercising my radical freedom by not saying “radical freedom”"

PERSON: "And you've still failed to ground comedy in pure logic..."

PERSON: "Wait, but..."

PERSON: "Wow...it almost sounds like, morally, people should be doing that if they enjoy the comic."

PERSON: "Neat."

PERSON: "Why is doing a communist revolution so hard... "

PERSON: "I am exercising my radical freedom by not saying “radical freedom”"

PERSON: "And you've still failed to ground comedy in pure logic..."

PERSON: "Wait, but..."

PERSON: "Wow...it almost sounds like, morally, people should be doing that if they enjoy the comic."

]]> Mon, 29 May 2023 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_4Xo-WyLRupSu4sICfMfkNm <![CDATA[Extreme Skepticism]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_5ZhnaKhgbAAX-fx8LWuXng

PERSON: " "

PERSON: "That's nothing Descartes, i doubt even the concept of one thing causing another, or that the sun will rise again tomorrow."

PERSON: "Pretty extreme, Hume. But wait...is that Pyrrho?"

PERSON: "Who is Pyrrho?"

PERSON: "Supposedly he is the most skeptical person of ALL TIME. He doubted everything and anything."

PERSON: "Excuse me, are you Pyrrho the Skeptic?"

PERSON: "...maybe. Why?"

PERSON: "Let's ask him."

PERSON: "How the hell should i know?"

PERSON: "So wise!"

PERSON: "i literally can't believe how cool he is."

]]> Mon, 22 May 2023 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_5ZhnaKhgbAAX-fx8LWuXng <![CDATA[Will To Build a Pyramid]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_4p1KY5p9L6lx-xWH3zZqEA

PERSON: " "

PERSON: "I really need everyone to step up their game here, let's go people. We all need to make sacrifices if we want to hit our quarterly numbers."

PERSON: "What's going on here?"

PERSON: "But...why?"

PERSON: "Don't you know? A billionaire died and left it in his will to build a pyramid in his honor, so we are building it."

PERSON: "Are you serious? It is bad enough to obey billionaires when they are alive, but you are going to keep obeying them even after they die?"

PERSON: "But no one on Earth even wants to build the stupid thing! The workers don't want to, the public doesn't want it, and the billionaire is dead!"

PERSON: "Why don't, instead of doing all this, all of you just decide for yourselfs what you want to work on...what you want to build?"

PERSON: "You obviously don't know much about the free market if you think people can just decide for themselves what to do!"

PERSON: "No, i have an mba from a top school!"

PERSON: "Right..."

]]> Mon, 15 May 2023 09:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/KXziYKIva_4p1KY5p9L6lx-xWH3zZqEA