Existential Comics

"You wouldn't believe it, but according to my research you can cause the most net happiness by taking dogs to the park."

Under communism, you won't be able to own an idea. If you steal other people's ideas you will still be widely regarded as a loser, however.

"I don't understand, if ever increasing consumption is leading to the destruction of your own planet, why don't you just reduce consumption?" "Because then the investors would lose money. It's like you aren't even reading the charts."

Later that night Kant finished what was possibly his greatest masterpiece: The Critique of Pure Fun.

Mary Warnock was a 20th century English philosopher of ethics. She critiqued Logical Positivists like Ayer and Carnap for making ethics a topic that philosophers no longer wanted to contribute to, because ethical questions may not be empirically decidable. This was especially true as positivism became popular in England for her generation of philosophers. She thought a philosopher's role must not only be to clarify moral questions, but ideally in the public sphere in a way that has a real effect. She chaired numerous government committees on ethics, most notably on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990. In contrast Carnap was a huge nerd.

"Why don't I want to marry you? Because you are a fuckin' nerd, Carnap, that's why."

Oh really? It bothers you that Seneca is Roman and Agamemnon is Greek, but he's drawn as a Roman? Not very Stoic of you.