Kant telling a joke

[dzordevjt]

i had to try to listen to this so hard that it would never have been funny....

[theamazinbagman]

cant tell a joke

[lokeydaniel]

at first Kant , He laughed and thought it was a real knee slapper, and then he took an arrow to the knee

[compost234]

Oh Kant, you humorous devil!

[lyon1535]

I was expecting a full explanation of his philosophy when I read that he was telling a joke.

[VoxJoxx]

he made a right kant of himself

[WalterLiddy]

Can't really make out what he's saying.

[sammosammy]

I started lauching immediately, couldn't focus on the words, and just kept laughed.

[HamsterFueledRocket]

Kant is the joke.

[y0utUBeH8r]

mactalk, kills joke,, fail

[george1001001]

Kant was a riot.

[nikanj]

He sounds a lot like Stephen Hawking.

[MrSieish]

Shizno!

[MrSieish]

POW-MIA

[MrSieish]

They need to give beer @ church not Wine...

[alifeofreason]

LOL WHAT?

[A1z1u1L]

how about transcript in the description? Mr. shower-in-french

[nyasha2704]

WTF

[x69Crunchyx]

This is what he just said: dofgasrofguiasjfguidnvfuivhdfy­ivbhdfuixnvjiasdfuia

[llTomlll]

I can't understand what he's saying...

[enraGeUKK]

i read that and laughed, a shrill nervous laugh that made me think that perhaps i am not altogether compos mentis

[ByabyaChannel]

What is Joke?

[selvmordspilot]

Kant is above humor. He only laughs at meta-humor

[tehzoh]

what

[mp4401]

THOMAS KUHN FTW

[TheRealNickBravo]

Kant's entire philosophy is a fucking joke!!!

[camcussion]

@TheRealNickBravo and you are...............

[SecularNumanist]

@TheRealNickBravo

did Leonard Peikoff tell you to say that?

[Whiscash97]

Kant can't tell a joke.

[DarkKnightBob1o1]

Kant should realise he has a categorical imperative to NEVER tell a joke.... EVER

It is universally true that no-one laughs at them.

[Vedurin]

What's so hard about speaking by yourself ? Seriously i don't understand a thing and what i don't understand even more is why people use those smelly computer voices >_> ...

[tumbleweedjoe]

I think if Kant had had a good hardy laugh, just once, it would have destroyed his whole system.

[blitzel3]

@tumbleweedjoe lol

[yammyspeed13]

HAHAHA, Electric blue got a hold of my brain banana!

[warhead540]

Am I supposed to not understand what is being said?

[0Enidan0]

@warhead540 I think the point is that it's supposed to be boring.

[spickinpower]

Best. Laugh. Ever.

[superstar122251]

What exactly was suppose to be funny in that "joke" :S

[mp4401]

i got a joke

CUMBRIA SHOOTINGS FTW!!!

[ReasonSharp]

"Everything you, Kant, do, I, Khan, do better." -- Genghis Khan on Immanuel Kant.

"Immanuel doesn't pun; he Kant."

"How do you live in accordance with Immanuel's philosophy? It Kant be done."

[zxcv73]

@ReasonSharp

Genghis Khan is the muscle, and Kant is the mind. It's a truly screwed up world when that is our leadership.

[ReasonSharp]

@zxcv73 A classic story of Attila and the witch doctor. Many people still believe that it's either one or the other. How could they believe otherwise? They're brainwashed to think of reason as impotent in the face of reality. Ironic as it sounds, that very belief makes it true as far as their capacity to reason is concerned - at least in some aspects of their lives.

[GEORGIOS798]

what reports? like what?

[alchemichael]

Is it so hard to have it read by a human?

[JetpackNinjaDinosaur]

i can't tell what he's saying

[carrettop]

man, that wasnt very funny

[ringawing]

reports indicate that he spoke like this.

[FatPlus1]

I fucking love Kant, he was so awesome.

[HoradrimSage]

...laugh, and it gives us a hearty pleasure. This is not because, say, we think we are smarter than this ignorant man, nor are we laughing at anything else here that it is our liking and that we noticed through our understanding. It is rather that we had a tense expectation that suddenly vanished..."

[HoradrimSage]

Ok, I didn't understand a word from this vid, so googled, and found this:

"An Englishman at an Indian's table in Surat saw a bottle of ale being opened, and all the beer, turned to froth, rushed out. The Indian, by repeated exclamations, showed his great amazement. - Well, what's so amazing in that? asked the Englishman. - Oh, but I'm not amazed at its coming out, replied the Indian, but how you managed to get it all in. - This makes us...

[bostsu2001]

@HoradrimSage Geez lueez... Thanks for this. I couldn't understand a word he said Either.

[FeelingFreshSon]

Kant, we can assume, was only humorous on certain a priori occasions, and it is most important to make this distinction; as many have attempted to -understand- his style? of writing. sdjkfahdgflaj

[PenthesileaSaraswati]

This just freaking amuses me.

Also, I like that he laughs after he explains it, because it seems like Kant would be the kind of man for whom, jokes would not be funny until he understood what the essence of funny was and could rest assured he wasn't dishonest in the act of laughing.

[jkh77]

What if it only exists beyond our perception of time and space? We can't get to the essence of things if they exist in the noumenal world, man.

[swimbackdanman]

wtf?

[zebendyone]

What is with the voice/sound quality? I understood like 1/3 of that.

[theboombody]

Probably how he really talked.

[ElstonGunnn69]

What a horrible joke.

[Iserion13]

lol that's the point.

[anythingarian]

I think Kant should laugh after the joke, not after its explanation.

[jkqd14]

Kant also said, in response to a question as to why he never married,

"When I had use for a wife, I couldn't afford one. Now that I can afford one, I have no use for one."

That's at least a little better.

[Muffinfordinner]

I've heard rumors that Immanuel Kant once told a joke. I thought they were just rumors.

[joru100]

hahahahaah, i bet this is how that son of a bitch told a joke. his views on knowledge and the way he managed to fuse empriricism and rationalism were brilliant, but damn, why did he have to suck at writting so much?

[joru100]

*writing*

[jkqd14]

In conclusion, let it be remembered that this much-abused obscurity (frequently serving as a mere pretext under which people hide their own indolence or dullness) has its uses, since all who in other sciences observe a judicious silence, speak authoritatively in metaphysics and make bold decisions, because their ignorance is not here contrasted with the knowledge of others. Yet it does contrast with sound critical principles, which we may therefore commend in the words of Virgil:

[jkqd14]

Even better: "Few writers are gifted with the subtlety, and at the same time with the grace, of David Hume, or with the depth, as well as the elegance, of Moses Mendelssohn. Yet I flatter myself I might have made my own exposition popular, had my object been merely to sketch out a plan and leave its completion to others instead of having my heart in the welfare of the science, to which I had devoted myself so long;

[jkqd14]

the words of Virgil: " Ignavum, fucos, pecus a praesepibus arcent. "

["Bees defend their hives against drones, those indolent ones."]

[ObjSolid]

Best laugh ever XD

A ahA HA HA HA

[mroaes]

Creepiest laugh ever.

[12caredee21]

bahahhahahaha

[NephandiMan]

Not a bad joke, Immy, but you've *got* to work on your delivery if you're ever going to make it big on the Koenigsberg edition of Last Comic Standing!

Now all you need to do is finish hashing out that zinger about the transcendental ideality of our representations. I'm tellin' ya, kid, that one's gonna *kill* 'em!

[plaspas]

lol...xD

[Leylaqq]

A-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!

I hope Kant wasn't using Shit Talker.

[kianatehrani]

"Suppose this story to be told: An Indian at the table of an Englishman in Surat, when he saw a bottle of ale opened and all the beer turned into froth and overflowing, testified his great astonishment with many exclamations. When the Englishman asked him,

[kianatehrani]

"What is there in this to astonish you so much?" he answered, "I am not at all astonished that it should flow out, but I do wonder how you ever got it in." At this story we laugh, and it gives us hearty pleasure; not because we deem ourselves cleverer than this ignorant man, or because of anything in it that we note as satisfactory to the Understanding, but because our expectation was strained [for a time] and then was suddenly dissipated into nothing."

[Sepero1]

I can't understand a fucking word.

Computer gen voices = Lame

[kidcalabria]

Absolutely, well said. Not even the best joke in the world could be funny if told with a voice with no emotion whatsoever

[Justwosweet]

The only problem was using a computer to read it. Very hard to understand. read it yourself and Speak Clearly.

[berettaNZ]

Ummm... do it again with a human voice and it might be interesting.

[regalkidney]

the narration sucked until the end with the "ha ha ha ha ha"--which is exactly how I picture Kant laughing.

[Cramnella]

I can't imagine Kant Laughing.

[regalkidney]

No, dude, Kant would explain we are obligated to laugh occasionally because it helps us fulfill our duty. Then, he would open his mouth just like that, and go HA-HA-HA-HA-HA, like a fog-horn.

[hueypham04]

i love Kant, but that's hilarious.

[happyman]

Suppose this story to be told: An Indian at the table of an Englishman in Surat, when he saw a bottle of ale opened and all the beer turned into froth and overflowing, testified his great astonishment with many exclamations. When the Englishman asked him, "What is there in this to astonish you so much?" he answered, "I am not at all astonished that it should flow out, but I do wonder how you ever got it in."

[happyman]

At this story we laugh, and it gives us hearty pleasure: not because we deem ourselves cleverer than this ignorant man, or because of anything in it that we note as satisfactory to Understanding, but because our expectation was strained [for a time] and then was suddenly dissipated into nothing.

--Immanuel Kant, Second Book: Analytic of the Sublime, Critique of Judgment

[trueZarbon]

If Kant actually told the joke using "suddenly dissipated into nothing" as the punchline like in this video it would be one of the funnier jokes I've heard.

Oh, and Kant it probably one of the greatest philosophers ever. A course on the Critique of Pure Reason should be mandatory for all university students!

[humder]

He is such a kant!

[cmn1108]

Stick to your day job, Immanuel.

[TheCanadianPrairies]

lol.

[MsTexasOne]

this is how conditioned I am to messageboards...I was looking for a person with the screen name Immanuel...bruhahaha

[riethc1]

I haven't read Kant but I've heard about his style. That was pretty funny.

[PatrickLars]

Was that Stephen Haking's voice? joke

[Ryguy1450]

get the infovox voices and it'll sound a lot more real. Especially the British male voice Grahm, though I know Kant was German.

[charliec81]

The problem with philosophical jokes is that its hard to 'get them'. Those that do.... well, they're a remote minority.

[regalkidney]

No, the problem with them is that they often rely on technical vocabulary while being only vaguely amusing. Some people laugh really hard anyway to show they understand it and mark themselves as part of the in-crowd.

Also, this joke isn't actually philosophical. It's just Kant's example of a normal joke, so he can give a theory of jokes that contradicts Aristotle's.

[evolveseventeen]

An Indian at the table of an Englishman in Surat, when he saw a bottle of ale opened and all the beer turned into froth and overflowing, testified his great astonishment with many exclamations. When the Englishman asked him "What is there in this to astonish you so much?" he answered, "I am not at all astonished that it should flow out, but I do wonder how you ever got it in." At this story we laugh, and it gives us heart pleasure.

[stapledtodeath]

this gave me hearty pleasure.

[JustSayNoToNutbread]

I think it's a take on how incomprehensible Kant is anyway -- he can't even tell a coherent joke!

[curien1000]

The joke was coherent and made perfect sense. Its not hilarious or anything, but there isn't really anything wrong with telling of it at all. People seem to react to this like he used some thick incomprehensible language. It reads like other literature from the period and there isn't a single piece of philosophical jargon or even a "big word" unless "astonishment" or "exclamations" count...I knew those words in the third grade (at the latest...)

[fauxshizl]

The problem isn't in the size of his words for me, but in his usage. He tends to make large run-on sentences with modifier piling on modifier. His words are simple, but are often being used in unusual context, sometimes taking on meanings that Kant creates himself. That's more of a critique of his larger work, though. This joke was no problem.

[phreakinpher]

Well, I guess you wouldn't like 18th century German very much.

[xhalmers860]

Can't make out the words really. You should use your own voice, would be more understandable.

PS sorry if that is your real voice

[EdDuMonde]

Ehhe. Heh-heeee. Ha, ha.

[SundaySilenceFilms]

This video should have been called "Kant tell a joke".

[charliec81]

Best pun ever made.

[SundaySilenceFilms]

Quite frankly, i just can't understand it because of the way the voice is. Kinda difficult!

[Herv3]

@SundaySilenceFilms Can't or Won't?

[cozarcade]

funny. but than i realized how pahetic i was when i actually got the joke :(

[thxeleventhirtyeight]

This strained my expectation for a moment before it dissipated into nothing.. XD

[hatc9723]

haha funny

[thomas271104]

I can't understand it, bad quality

[chrish12345]

he could almost be a young mike ried