{"id":912,"date":"2009-11-30T17:07:55","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T16:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=912"},"modified":"2009-11-30T17:07:55","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T16:07:55","slug":"richard-smith-dead-philosophers-can-make-you-laugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2009\/11\/30\/richard-smith-dead-philosophers-can-make-you-laugh\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Smith: Dead philosophers can make you laugh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/home\/icons\/bmjh7648e.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Smith\" width=\"160\" height=\"110\" align=\"left\" \/>Perhaps I should have realised from the title, but when I began to read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Book-Dead-Philosophers-Simon-Critchley\/dp\/1847080103\">The Book\u00a0of Dead Philosophers<\/a> I didn\u2019t expect it to be funny. In fact Simon Critchley\u2019s stories of how \u201c190 or so\u201d philosophers died and some of what they said about death is at times hilarious\u2014as well as rich with meaning.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s begin with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alfred_Jules_Ayer\">Freddie Ayer<\/a>, the Oxford logical positivist whom as a student I saw lecture in Edinburgh. The story of his encounter with Mike Tyson the New York party of an underwear designer is well known, but I\u2019d not heard it. Tyson had begun to assault Naomi Campbell, and Ayer confronted him. \u201cDo you know who the fuck I am?\u201d asked Tyson. \u201cI\u2019m the heavyweight champion of the world.\u201d \u201cAnd I,\u201d replied Ayer, \u201cam the former Wykeham Professor of Logic. We are both eminent in our fields; I suggest we talk about this like rational men.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the mid-70s Ayer was asked what was the most important defect in his hugely important book <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Language,_Truth_and_Logic\">Language, Truth, and Logic<\/a>. \u201cWell,\u201d answered Ayer, \u201cI suppose the most important defect was that nearly all of it was false.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later Ayer had a near death experience after choking on a piece of salmon, and his wife said of him \u201cFreddie has got so much nicer since he died.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arthur_Schopenhauer\">Schopenhauer<\/a> was arguably the most pessimistic philosopher ever, but he had a way with words that (perhaps because of my warped sense of humour) makes me laugh. \u201cLife is an expiation of the crime of being born\u2026We begin in the madness of carnal desire and the transport of voluptuousness, we end in the dissolution of all our parts and the musty smell of corpses.\u201d A notorious misogynist he wrote: \u201cMarriage means to grasp blindfold into a sack hoping to find an eel in an assembly of snakes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ludwig_Wittgenstein\">Wittgenstein<\/a> is not thought to be a bundle of laughs, but he had his moments. The last months of his life were spent working intensely and living with Dr and Mrs Bevan. He would go to the pub every night with Mrs Bevan, and on his birthday she wished him \u201cmany happy returns.\u201d Staring back at her, he said \u201cThere will be no returns.\u201d He lived a life, writes Critchley, of \u201causterity, fighting inner torment, a deeply troubled relation to sexuality, and utter ethical earnestness.\u201d No wonder his jokes were so deadpan.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the same epithet might be applied to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oscar_Wilde\">Oscar Wilde<\/a>, a philosopher of a milder type, whose last words were \u201cEither that wallpaper goes or I do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps I should have realised from the title, but when I began to read The Book\u00a0of Dead Philosophers I didn\u2019t expect it to be funny. 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