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There have been numerous famous, and sometimes humorous, '''lampoons and mockery of philosophers''' throughout the ages. This can be attributed almost entirely to the fact that philosophers, in their attempts to construct systematic rational accounts of the world and our place in it, sometimes end up saying things that are contrary to the contemporary culture, or to what is regarded as [[common sense]]. | There have been numerous famous, and sometimes humorous, '''lampoons and mockery of philosophers''' throughout the ages. This can be attributed almost entirely to the fact that philosophers, in their attempts to construct systematic rational accounts of the world and our place in it, sometimes end up saying things that are contrary to the contemporary culture, or to what is regarded as [[common sense]]. | ||
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There have been numerous famous, and sometimes humorous, lampoons and mockery of philosophers throughout the ages. This can be attributed almost entirely to the fact that philosophers, in their attempts to construct systematic rational accounts of the world and our place in it, sometimes end up saying things that are contrary to the contemporary culture, or to what is regarded as common sense.
Some examples of lampooning of philosophers:
- Socrates lampooned in The Clouds and then lambasted by his accusers in The Apology
- Leibniz lampooned as "Dr. Pangloss" in Candide.
- Berkeley was mocked in Boswell's Johnson, when Johnson kicked a stone and said, "I refute Berkeley thus."
- Søren Kierkegaard was parodied in The Corsair, a weekly satirical magazine, which made fun of his appearance and dress, showing him having one trouser leg shorter than the other