A few philosophers’ theories, summarised with the aid of pastry-related analogy
2014-03-04
| Author | Theory |
|---|---|
| Heraclitus | You can’t eat the same donut twice. |
| Plato | All donuts share in ideal ‘donut-ness’. |
| Aristotle | A donut contains its donut-ness. |
| Augustine | Donuts need grace to be fully donut. |
| Descartes | A donut’s hole proves the existence of the donut. |
| Locke | Donuts taste good to me. |
| Hume | Donuts exist because I imagine donuts. |
| Kant | A ‘donut’ = my total experience of donuts. |
| Wollstonecraft | Women deserve donuts, too. |
| Mill | Donuts are good if they make people happy. |
| Kierkegaard | I have faith that donuts are delicious. |
| Marx | Everybody deserves donuts. |
| Nietzsche | Stop at nothing to get your donut. |
| Saussure | Beignet/krapfen/ciambella/buñuelo = ‘donut’ |
| Wittgenstein | Fried pastry, zero, parking lot spin, spare tire. |
| Beauvoir | Patriarchy is responsible for the shape of the donut. |
