Causes of Death of Philosophers
Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2002 10:49 am
Aquinas: First causes
Aristotle: Excessive moderation
Camus: The plague
Chomsky: Became past tense
Copernicus: Revolution
Darwin: Unfit
Derrida: Deconstructed
Descartes: Stopped thinking
Einstein: Diced with God
Foucault: Disempowered
Freud: Slipped
Galileo: Stopped moving
Hegel: Gave up the Geist
Heidegger: Stopped being in time
Heisenberg: Uncertain causes
Hera****us: Fell in the same river twice
Hume: Turned an unknown shade of blue
Kant: Became transcendentally real
Kierkegaard: Sick to death
Levi-Strauss: Cooked
Machiavelli: Intriguing causes
Marcuse: Became multi-dimensional
Marx: Capital punishment
Nietzsche: Overpowered himself
Plato: Caved in
Popper: Falsified
Pythagoras: Squared on the hypotenuse
Sartre: Nausea
Schopenhauer: Involuntary causes
Skinner, B F: Bad behaviour
Wittgenstein: Became the late Wittgenstein
Aristotle: Excessive moderation
Camus: The plague
Chomsky: Became past tense
Copernicus: Revolution
Darwin: Unfit
Derrida: Deconstructed
Descartes: Stopped thinking
Einstein: Diced with God
Foucault: Disempowered
Freud: Slipped
Galileo: Stopped moving
Hegel: Gave up the Geist
Heidegger: Stopped being in time
Heisenberg: Uncertain causes
Hera****us: Fell in the same river twice
Hume: Turned an unknown shade of blue
Kant: Became transcendentally real
Kierkegaard: Sick to death
Levi-Strauss: Cooked
Machiavelli: Intriguing causes
Marcuse: Became multi-dimensional
Marx: Capital punishment
Nietzsche: Overpowered himself
Plato: Caved in
Popper: Falsified
Pythagoras: Squared on the hypotenuse
Sartre: Nausea
Schopenhauer: Involuntary causes
Skinner, B F: Bad behaviour
Wittgenstein: Became the late Wittgenstein