Favorite philosophical joke.

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Dennett only believes in 2nd and third person narratives, never first person narratives. If you say, "I feel sad" Dennett would call that gibberish! However, if your sadness if empirically verified by another person , he would agree that you are sad.
Dennett is in bed with his wife. He turns to her and says, " it was good for you, was it good for me?"
Wittgenstein once said that a good philosophical book could contain nothing but jokes. The above joke exposes the absurdity of Dennett's position. Any other jokes that make a philosophical point?

All I can think of for some reason is-

Friedrich Nietzsche is dead- God

Rene Descarte was at a party and his host asked him if he wanted another cognac. Descartes replied "I think not..." and vanished in a puff of smoke.

ruveyn

You can lead a horse to water but you can't lead a horticulture.

Ludwig - while brandishing a poker - asked Karl to provide an example of a moral rule.

Karl replied: "Not to threaten visiting lecturers with pokers."

The President of the University was chastising the Head of the Computer Science department about his latest requisition for new equipment: "You're asking for way too much money! Why can't you be like the Math department? All they need are pencils, paper, and wastebaskets! Or the Philosophy department? They don't even need the wastebaskets!"

Is it solipsistic in here, or is it just me?

my answer to the question: Why is there Something rather than Nothing?

"There isn't."

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Kant walks into a bar … only he doesn’t, a prerequisite of movement being three-dimensional space, which is merely an illusory construct of pure intuition.

Heidegger follows Kant into the bar and asks for a pint of ale, to which the bartender replies, "Sorry, last orders was fifteen minutes ago."

Leaving, he sighs and thinks to himself, "I hate not Being on Time".

A philosopher is having a debate with another thinking and he saying- 'It is simple. A wheel is defined by the fact it is a wheel.'
The other thinker said 'I find that a rather circular argument.'

Hahaha, I might just have to steal that just so I can tell it to someone...Not that they exist.

Don't remember where I heard it, but here's my favorite:

How many Hegelians does it take to change a light bulb?
Two. One to stand at one end of the room and argue that it isn't dark and the second to stand at the other end and say that true light is impossible. This dialectic creates a synthesis which does the job.

While at work I spontaneously joked," I'm so smart that even I don't understand myself". * The interesting philosophical point is, can you be more intelligent than your awareness? What am I? The self, or that which does not understand the self?
* I was doing a complicated equation and solved it. But I solved it pretty much unconsciously!

That is interesting. I suppose in some ways you can. I was reading a book by Malcolm Glad well recently and in that book he describes how people's snap judgements are often more correct than when they given more time to analyze a problem. Apparently, one can judge an individual's character fat better when one makes an instinctual judgement about their personality rather than spend ages getting to know them. In this sense, your subconscious mind, the part of the brain that is responsible for such snap judgements, has more awareness than your conscious mind, even though they are both you. So in that respect, you can be more clever than you. Sorry for the stupid reply.

A nihilist walks into a bar...Oh, it doesn't matter....