Portfolio Exercise 1: Summary (wteII: funny or not)

  1. Thomas Hobbes, ​Human Nature, ​in: ​The English Works of Thomas Hobbes, ​vol. 4, pp.
    45-47: Hobbes describes how laughter carries a weight that expresses dominance alongside joy and give laughter a dynamic superiority style lighting, contradictory to how we see it now which is crying : sadness :: laughing: happiness.
  2.  Immanuel Kant, from ​Critique of Judgment​, pp. 202-204: Kant explains that laughter flows from a paradoxical concoction of perception, leveling emotions and views into an overthought, physical act of laughter. The interesting part of Kants view is the not how he sees laughter but how he sees incongruity, comedy is thereby the difference between what you believe to happen and what actually unfolds, given, each person laughs to their own degree based upon their own belief. Like a comedian not laughing at their own jokes or acts because they already know the punchline the comedy, similar to Schopenhaur views, comes from the space between reality and thought; Kant unlike Schopenhaur sparks the realization in you that you, like all people around them are constantly gambling on what the next few second of their life will entail. Chances are the guy at the front of the room will say “Simon Says” again but the laughter is found in the moments when they don’t say it as you thought they would.
  3. Arthur Schopenhauer, from ​The World as Will and Idea​, Vol. 1, Section 13, p. 95: Schopenhauer explains how he views laughter as a response to incongruity, on a dynamic scale, with a larger laugh being drawn for Gift of the Magi style building to breathy laughs from almost bumping into someone, giving laughter a not mindless but more call and response relationship with life and strips it of its independence.
  4. THE PHYSIOLOGY OF LAUGHTER BY HERBERT SPENCER: looks more physically at laughter as a natural reactions, fight, flight and funny if you will, explaining that despite what makes comedy, you laugh because your muscles tell you to do so.

 

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