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  1. Wit and Humour in the Augustan Age.Endre Szécsényi - 2007 - Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 13 (1-2):79-92.
    Reflections upon wit and humour in the writings of Sir Richard Blackmore, Joseph Addison and Lord Shaftesbury.
     
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    The Works Og James Gillray: From the Original Plates : with the Additions of Many Subjects Not Before Collected.James Gillray, Thomas Wright, R. H. Evans, Henry George Bohn & Charles Whiting - 1847 - Printed for Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, by Charles Whiting.
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    Metaphysical Wit.A. J. Smith - 2006 - Cambridge University Press.
    English metaphysical poetry, from Donne to Marvell, is conspicuously witty. A. J. Smith seeks the central importance of wit in the thinking of the metaphysical poets, and argues that metaphysical wit is essentially different from other modes of wit current in Renaissance Europe. Formal theories and rhetorics of wit are considered both for their theoretical import and their appraisals of wit in practice. Prevailing fashions of witty invention are scrutinized in Italian, French, and Spanish writings, so as to bring (...)
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    The triumph of wit: a study of Victorian comic theory.Robert Bernard Martin - 1974 - Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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    The Wit and Humour of Principia Mathematica.Kenneth Blackwell - 2011 - Russell: The Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies 31 (1).
    Except for its belated proof of 1 + 1 = 2, Principia Mathematica doesn’t feature in studies of mathematical humour. Yet there is restrained and understated humour in that work, despite the inauspicious conditions under which it was written. Russell, to take one of the authors, had an irrepressible talent for enlivening his subject matter. This paper explores even the "obscure corners" of PM to uncover its humour and wit, which, for non-logicians, can be an entree to the work.
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    Lost and Found: 1969-2003.Bill Griffith - 2011 - Fantagraphics Books.
    Bill Griffith is best known as the creator of the Zippy daily comic strip, currently running in over 300 newspapers nationwide, but Zippy was conceived as an underground comix character before he became embraced in the mainstream. Beginning in 1969, Griffith contributed stories to a long list of legendary undergrounds. Lost and Found is not only a collection of these underground comix — hand-picked by the artist himself — but a mini-memoir of the artist’s comix career during the early days (...)
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    The Ethical Element in Wit and Humor.Bradley Gilman - 1909 - International Journal of Ethics 19 (4):488-494.
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    A theory of wit and humour.F. R. Fleet - 1890 - Port Washington, N.Y.,: Kennikat Press.
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    Ideas of note: one man's philosophy of life on Post-Its.Chaz Hutton - 2017 - New York, NY: Abrams Image.
    A collection of exceptionally clever and funny diagrams that break down life's everyday foibles from the creator of the popular Instagram feed @instachaaz. Charles Hutton is the voice behind "Insta-Chaz." Hundreds of thousands follow his very witty takes on the highs and lows of daily life via graphs, charts, and simple illustrations on the ubiquitous yellow, rectangular Post-it note. All his observations are from the point of view of his online alter-ego, Chaz, whose most popular traits with readers are his (...)
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  10. Fenomenologii︠a︡ smekha: karikatura, parodii︠a︡, grotesk v sovremennoĭ kulʹture: sbornik stateĭ.V. P. Shestakov - 2002 - Moskva: Rossiĭskiĭ in-t kulʹturologii.
     
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    Scholastic Humor Database.Boaz Faraday Schuman - manuscript
    Scholastic philosophers sometimes told jokes. Some of these have been preserved in the texts. (And some are even funny!). -/- But beyond the general human interest in having fun, these thinkers had good theoretical reasons to value humor as well. This is because Aristotle himself claims that ready wit (eutrapelia) is a virtue. I published a paper on this in 2022 (“Scholastic Humor”), and since then colleagues have brought further examples to my attention. (Thanks, everyone!) -/- Here, I aim to (...)
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    Wit and/or Humor.Fabienne Brugère - 2010 - Sententiae 22 (1):211-214.
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    An old-spelling, critical edition of Shaftesbury's Letter concerning enthusiasm, and, Sensus communis: an essay on the freedom of wit and humor.Anthony Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury - 1988 - New York: Garland. Edited by Richard B. Wolf & Anthony Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury.
  14. Li shi shang lao dong ren min fan Kong dou zheng de gu shi.Mei Ren - 1975 - Beijing: Ren min mei shu chu ban she. Edited by Zhanmei Lu.
     
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    (2 other versions)Looking at philosophy: the unbearable heaviness of philosophy made lighter.Donald Palmer - 2009 - New York: McGraw-Hill.
    Introduction -- The pre-socratic philosophers -- Sixth and fifth centuries B.C.E. -- Thales -- Anaximander -- Anaximenes -- Pythagoras -- Heraclitus -- Parmenides -- Zeno -- Empedocles -- Anaxagoras -- Leucippus and Democritus -- The Athenian period -- Fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E. -- The Sophists -- Protagoras -- Gorgias -- Thrasymachus -- Callicles and Critias -- Socrates -- Plato -- Aristotle -- The Hellenistic and Roman periods -- Fourth century B.C.E. through fourth century C.E. -- Epicureanism -- Stoicism -- (...)
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  16. The Philosophy of Laughter and Humor.John Morreall (ed.) - 1986 - State University of New York Press.
    This book assesses the adequacy of the traditional theories of laughter and humor, suggests revised theories, and explores such areas as the aesthetics and ethics of humor, and the relation of amusement to other mental states. Theories of laughter and humor originated in ancient times with the view that laughter is an expression of feelings of superiority over another person. This superiority theory was held by Plato, Aristotle, and Hobbes. Another aspect of laughter, noted by Aristotle and Cicero and neglected (...)
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    Mes leçons d'antan: Platon, Plotin et le néoplatonisme.Lucien Jerphagnon - 2014 - Paris: Belles lettres. Edited by Jean-Louis Dumas-Hermès.
    English summary: Lucien Jerphagnon (1921-2011) was one of the most imminent scholars of Greek philosophy during the twentieth century. This collection of texts offers his lectures from the 1970s and 80s on Platos Parmenides, tracing the history of Greek philosophy through to Plotinus and the Neo-Platonists and Gnostics with wit and erudition. The present volume follows the recent critical edition and French translation of Parmenides. French description: Big-bang philosophique, le Parmenide de Platon a donne naissance a un courant de (...)
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    Dialogue on the Infinity of Love.Tullia D'Aragona - 1997 - Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Edited by Rinaldina Russell & Bruce Merry.
    Celebrated as a courtesan and poet, and as a woman of great intelligence and wit, Tullia d'Aragona entered the debate about the morality of love that engaged the best and most famous male intellects of sixteenth-century Italy. First published in Venice in 1547, but never before published in English, Dialogue on the Infinity of Love casts a woman rather than a man as the main disputant on the ethics of love. Sexually liberated and financially independent, Tullia d'Aragona dared to (...)
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    Hazards of the Higher Debunkery.James F. English - 2007 - Journal of the History of Ideas 68 (3):363-368.
    In Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain, Stefan Collini deploys a fiercely skeptical wit against what he calls the "absence thesis": the cliché view of England as a land peculiarly lacking in intellectuals. The brio and aggression with which he demolishes this longstanding myth serve a paradoxical double function, marking his own claim to a place in the specifically English and male tradition of writing that he so effectively deconstructs.
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    Dialogue on the Infinity of Love.Rinaldina Russell & Bruce Merry (eds.) - 1997 - University of Chicago Press.
    Celebrated as a courtesan and poet, and as a woman of great intelligence and wit, Tullia d'Aragona entered the debate about the morality of love that engaged the best and most famous male intellects of sixteenth-century Italy. First published in Venice in 1547, but never before published in English, _Dialogue on the Infinity of Love_ casts a woman rather than a man as the main disputant on the ethics of love. Sexually liberated and financially independent, Tullia d'Aragona dared to (...)
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  21. Mathematical Wit and Mathematical Cognition.Andrew Aberdein - 2013 - Topics in Cognitive Science 5 (2):231-250.
    The published works of scientists often conceal the cognitive processes that led to their results. Scholars of mathematical practice must therefore seek out less obvious sources. This article analyzes a widely circulated mathematical joke, comprising a list of spurious proof types. An account is proposed in terms of argumentation schemes: stereotypical patterns of reasoning, which may be accompanied by critical questions itemizing possible lines of defeat. It is argued that humor is associated with risky forms of inference, which are essential (...)
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    Wit, humour and irony in heroides 9.P. Murgatroyd - 2014 - Classical Quarterly 64 (2):853-855.
    Heroides9 takes the form of a letter sent by Deianira to Hercules as a reinforcement to the tunic smeared with Nessus' blood which she has already dispatched in the mistaken belief that it will revive the hero's love for her. In this epistle she tries to persuade her husband to give up his latest girlfriend by showing him that she loves him, by arousing pity for herself, and by making him feel ashamed of his philandering and see that he thereby (...)
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    The Present Perfective Paradox Across Languages.Astrid De Wit - 2016 - Oxford University Press UK.
    This book presents an analysis of how speakers of typologically diverse languages report present-time situations. It begins from the assumption that there is a restriction on the use of the present tense to report present-time dynamic/perfective situations, while with stative/imperfective situations there are no such alignment problems. Astrid De Wit brings together cross-linguistic observations from English, French, the English-based creole language Sranan, and various Slavic languages, and relates them to the same phenomenon, the 'present perfective paradox'. The proposed (...)
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  24. Cruelty and Humour.Valery Vino & Noel Carroll - 2024 - Debates in Aesthetics 19 (1):149-161.
    Philosophical discussions about humour go back to ancient aesthetics, to laughing Democritus and the aporia of Socratic self-irony, to Diogenes the Dog performing tricks on the streets of Athens, and to the lost second book of Aristotle’s Poetics. Dramatized in texts and the arts, the comic emerges not only in popular literature and public events, like Dionysia and Saturnalia, but also in the lives of eminent philosophers in antiquity, the Renaissance, and today. Recently, humour has seen a resurgence in aesthetics, (...)
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  25. Scholastic Humor: Ready Wit as a Virtue in Theory and Practice.Boaz Faraday Schuman - 2022 - History of Philosophy Quarterly 39 (2):113-129.
    Scholastic philosophers can be quite funny. What’s more, they have good reason to be: Aristotle himself lists ready wit (eutrapelia) among the virtues, as a mean between excessive humor and its defect. Here, I assess Scholastic discussions of humor in theory, before turning to examples of it in practice. The last and finest of these is a joke, hitherto unacknowledged, which Aquinas makes in his famous Five Ways. Along the way, we’ll see (i) that the history of philosophy is not (...)
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  26. Meillassoux’s Virtual Future.Graham Harman - 2011 - Continent 1 (2):78-91.
    continent. 1.2 (2011): 78-91. This article consists of three parts. First, I will review the major themes of Quentin Meillassoux’s After Finitude . Since some of my readers will have read this book and others not, I will try to strike a balance between clear summary and fresh critique. Second, I discuss an unpublished book by Meillassoux unfamiliar to all readers of this article, except those scant few that may have gone digging in the microfilm archives of the École normale (...)
     
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    Humor and the Good Life in Modern Philosophy: Shaftesbury, Hamann, Kierkegaard.Lydia Amir - 2014 - Albany: State University of New York Press.
    _An exploration of philosophical and religious ideas about humor in modern philosophy and their secular implications._.
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  28. Dialogue on the infinity of love.Tullia D' Aragona - 1997 - Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Edited by Rinaldina Russell & Bruce Merry.
    Celebrated as a courtesan and poet, and as a woman of great intelligence and wit, Tullia d'Aragona (1510–56) entered the debate about the morality of love that engaged the best and most famous male intellects of sixteenth-century Italy. First published in Venice in 1547, but never before published in English, Dialogue on the Infinity of Love casts a woman rather than a man as the main disputant on the ethics of love. Sexually liberated and financially independent, Tullia d'Aragona dared (...)
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    Humour and cruelty.Giorgio Baruchello - 2023 - Berlin: De Gruyter. Edited by Ársæll Már Arnarsson.
    Humor has been praised by philosophers and poets as a balm to soothe the sorrows that outrageous fortune's slings and arrows cause inevitably, if not incessantly, to each and every one of us. In mundane life, having a sense of humor is seen not only as a positive trait of character, but as a social prerequisite, without which a person's career and mating prospects are severely diminished, if not annihilated. However, humor is much more than this, and so much else. (...)
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  30. Humor and horror: different emotions, similar linguistic processing strategies.Lena Strassburger - 2022 - Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.
    Despite their opposite emotional effects, humor and horror are highly similar phenomena. They both can be traced back to (the detection, resolution, and emotional elaboration of) incongruities, understood as semantic violations through unexpected combinations of oppositional information. However, theoretical and experimental comparisons between humor and resolvable incongruities that elicit other emotions than exhilaration have been lacking so far. To gain more insights into the linguistic differences between humor and horror and the cognitive real-time processing of both, a main concern of (...)
     
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    Humour and meaning: selected aspects of humour in culture.Katarzyna Kozak & Edward Colerick (eds.) - 2018 - Siedlce: Scientific Publishing House of Siedlce University of Natural Science and Humanities.
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    Conceptually distinguishing mirth, humor, and comedy: a philosophical analysis.Eva Kort - 2014 - Lewiston, New York: The Edwin Mellen Press.
    This book opens a new dialogue for philosophical treatments of humor and comedy. It traces their history from the Dionysian Performance Tradition and brings a fresh perspective to the issue as it recasts standard interpretations of the Aristotelian theory in broader terms that offer new grounds for distinguishing humor', comedy' and mirth'.
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    Kierkegaard and the Legitimacy of the Comic: Understanding the Relevance of Irony, Humor, and the Comic for Ethics and Religion.Will Williams - 2018 - Lanham: Lexington Books.
    Kierkegaard makes a controversial and little-understood claim: irony, humor, and the comic are essential to ethics and religion. This account, grounded in Concluding Unscientific Postscript, explicates that idea for a philosophical and theological audience with a level of conceptual analysis never seen before in Kierkegaard scholarship.
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    Laughter, Humor, and Comedy in Ancient Philosophy.Pierre Destrée & Franco V. Trivigno (eds.) - 2019 - New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
    "Ancient philosophers were very interested in the themes of laughter, humor and comedy. They theorized about laughter and its causes, moralized about the appropriate uses of humor and what it is appropriate to laugh at, and wrote treaties on comedic composition. Further, they were often merciless in ridiculing their opponents' positions, often borrowing comedic devices and techniques from comic poetry and drama to do so. The volume is organized around three themes that were important for ancient philosophers: the psychology of (...)
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    The future of post-human humor: a preface to a new theory of joking and laughing.Peter Baofu - 2011 - Cambridge, UK: Cambridge International Science Publishing.
    Baofu discusses the future of humor, especially in the dialectic context of joking and laughing--while learning from different approaches in the literature but without favoring any one of them. He offers a new theory to go beyond the existing approaches in the literature on humor in a novel way.
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    A Source Book of Literary and Philosophical Writings About Humour and Laughter: The Seventy-Five Essential Texts From Antiquity to Modern Times.Jorge Figueroa-Dorrego & Cristina Larkin-Galinanes (eds.) - 2009 - The Edwin Mellen Press.
    This anthology brings together extracts that come from a wide variety of sources and that illustrate Western thought on the subject of humour and laughter from Antiquity to Late Modernity. The selection of texts is comprehensive, historically representative, and original, and includes writings from more than 40 different authors.
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    Dangerous jokes: how racism and sexism weaponize humor.Claire Horisk - 2024 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    In this book, Claire Horisk argues that the real problem with so-called offensive jokes-such as racist, sexist, and ethnic jokes-is not that they are offensive but that they are harmful, because they transmit and reinforce stereotypes and ideas that contribute to a network of unjust disadvantage for the derogated group. She distinguishes between belittling jokes, which shore up unjust disadvantage for social groups, and disparaging jokes, which derogate powerful groups such as doctors but do not contribute to unjust disadvantage. She (...)
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    (2 other versions)Ethics briefing.Ruth Campbell, Sophie Brannan, Veronica English, Rebecca Mussell, Julian C. Sheather & Olivia Lines - 2020 - Journal of Medical Ethics 46 (2):159-160.
    In February 2020, the British Medical Association will be surveying members for their views on what the BMA’s position on physician-assisted dying should be. The BMA is currently opposed to physician-assisted dying in all its forms, a position that was agreed in 2006 at the annual representative meeting, the Association’s policy-making conference.1 As previously reported in Ethics briefing,2 the decision to survey members follows a motion passed at last year’s ARM which called on the BMA to “carry out a poll (...)
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    (2 other versions)Ethics briefing.Sophie Brannan, Martin Davies, Veronica English, Caroline Ann Harrison, Dominic Norcliffe-Brown & Julian C. Sheather - 2021 - Journal of Medical Ethics 47 (8):587-588.
    In June 2021, the BMA published its report on moral distress and moral injury in UK doctors.1 The report includes definitions of the terms ‘moral distress’ and ‘moral injury’ as well as a summary of how the concepts have developed over time. There is also an analysis of the BMA’s pan-profession survey of moral distress and moral injury of doctors in the UK, the first of its kind. The impact of COVID-19 and recommendations for tackling moral distress also feature. Many (...)
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    Beautiful or Agreeable? Humour and Wit in The Origins of Kant’s Aesthetics.Melissa Zinkin - forthcoming - Kantian Review:1-8.
    In this paper, I explore what Robert Clewis, in The Origins of Kant’s Aesthetics, suggests is an ‘analogy’ between humour and beauty. I do this by focusing on Kant’s concept of wit (Witz), which is central to both reflective judgement and humour. By exploring the concept of Witz as a distinctive kind of cognitive activity, I believe a case can be made that the origin of Kant’s mature aesthetic theory in the Critique of the Power of Judgement and his discovery (...)
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    Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy.Klaus Vieweg, James Vigus & Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds.) - 2013 - Legenda, Modern Humanities Research Association and Maney Publishing.
    One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term 'Shandean humour' in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne's humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. In tracing its hitherto under-recognised impact both on literary writers, such as Jean Paul and Herman Melville, and on philosophers, including Hegel and Marx, the (...)
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    Witnessing Insanity: Madness and Mad-Doctors in the English Court. Joel Peter Eigen.James Mohr - 1996 - Isis 87 (2):370-371.
  43. Dorothy Leigh Sayers: Work, wit and wisdom.Austin Cooper - 2019 - The Australasian Catholic Record 96 (3):306.
    The Oxford or Tractarian Movement and later Ritualists and Anglo-Catholics schooled numerous converts in elements of the Catholic faith. Foremost among them was John Henry Cardinal Newman, one of the original founders of the Oxford Movement. Converts numbered in the hundreds and included another cardinal, Henry Edward Manning, the second Archbishop of Westminster, the religious foundress Cornelia Connelly, the priest novelist Robert Hugh Benson and later literary figures such as G.K. Chesterton, Evelyn Waugh and Mgr Ronald Knox. American historian, Patrick (...)
     
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    Isn’T That Clever: A Philosophical Account of Humor and Comedy.Steven Gimbel - 2017 - London: Routledge.
    The obligatory chapter -- My, how clever: what is humor and what humor is -- Joking matters -- Comedy tonight -- Killing it: humor and comedy aesthetics -- Can't you take a joke?: humor ethics -- Am I blue?: the ethics of dirty jokes -- Is that a Mic in your hand or are you just happy to see me?: comedy ethics.
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    Ética del humor: fundamentos y aplicaciones de una nueva teoría ética.Juan Carlos Siurana - 2015 - Madrid: Plaza y Valdés Editores.
    Though laughter and smiles are a part of our everyday lives, they are not always used appropriately. We need to learn how to laugh, to educate our sense of humor. This book is a meditation on humor in general, the humor we deploy and perceive on a day-to-day basis, and on the ethical dimensions that underpin it. It puts forward a new ethical theory, placing humor at the Archimedean point from which to further our understanding as moral subjects, offering explanations (...)
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    Vom Humor.Galina Berkenkopf - 1944 - Freiburg im Breisgau,: Herder.
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    Avicenna, Book of the Healing, Isagoge (“Madḫal”) : Edition of the Arabic text, English translation and Commentary.Silvia Di Vincenzo - 2018 - Dissertation, Scuola Normale Superiore
    The thesis deals with a section of the major philosophical summa by Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā, d. 1037), namely the Book of the Healing (Kitāb al-Šifāʾ). The summa is structured into four parts, devoted to Logic, Natural Philosophy, Mathematics and Metaphysics; the section at stake is Avicenna’s reworking of Porphyry’s Isagoge (Kitāb al-Madḫal, i.e. “Book of the Introduction”) opening the section of Logic of the Šifāʾ. The thesis is articulated into three main parts, namely (i) an edition of the Arabic text (...)
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    The politics of Socratic humor.John Lombardini - 2018 - Oakland, California: University of California Press.
    Was Socrates an ironist? Did he mock his interlocutors, and in doing so, show disdain for both them and the institutions of Athenian democracy? These questions were debated with great seriousness by generations of ancient Greek writers and helped to define a primary strand of the western tradition of political thought. Reconstructing these debates, The Politics of Socratic Humor compares the very different interpretations of Socrates developed by his followers--such diverse thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, Xenophon, Aristophanes, and the Hellenistic Philosophers--to (...)
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    Cultural and Linguistic Prejudices Experienced by African Language Speaking Witnesses and Legal Practitioners at the Hands of Judicial Officers in South African Courtroom Discourse: The Senzo Meyiwa Murder Trial.Zakeera Docrat & Russell H. Kaschula - 2024 - International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique 37 (4):1309-1322.
    This article recognizes that linguistic prejudice (with its associated cultural biases) is a reality in any multilingual country, including South Africa. Prejudice is inherently human and the article suggests that it can be both positive and negative. In the case of the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial the article suggests that the linguistic prejudice experienced by witnesses and legal practitioners was largely negative. Even though the South African Constitution suggests an empowering multilingual environment where there are now twelve official languages, in (...)
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    HA!: a christian philosophy of humor.Peter Kreeft - 2022 - South Bend, Indiana: St. Augustine's Press.
    '"This book almost didn't exist. I was about to write a serious, heavy book entitled How To Save Western Civilization, as a sequel to my book How To Destroy Western Civilization and Other Ideas from the Cultural Abyss. But writing it was not making me happy, and reading it was not going to make anybody else happy either. And then I stopped just long enough for my guardian angel to squeeze through that tiny window of opportunity that I had opened (...)
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