A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

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Philosophy Jeopardy



Things Schopenhauer hates:
Hegel
Noise
Life itself
Hegel
Everything else
Things Schopenhauer hates: Hegel Noise Life itself Hegel Everything else
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Some people might find the penis jokes for Freud to be a bit reductive, since Freud wrote on an enormous amount of topics. These people are wrong. Penises are funny.

Leibniz's theory of pre-established harmony is explained (sort of) in the notes on this comic.

Marx thought that the ideal society would have no class hierarchies (i.e., there would not be a division between those who owned businesses, and those who sold their labor to the business owners), and no state. He didn't spend a lot of time describing exactly what this meant, because Marx did not believe in Utopian thinking. He thought history was a process, and we should work towards freedom from oppression in the society we live in, not attempt to imagine wholesale what a perfect society would be like from scratch.

Philosophers in this comic: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx
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