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>There is an old, old story. A woman steps into a doctors office, say
>"Doctor I get these horribly shooting pains in my..."
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>The doctor interrupts. "Madame, I'm sorry, I can't help you. I'm a
>Doctor of Philosophy".
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>Terribly embarrassed, the woman turns to leave. But she is curious, and
>can't help asking "Doctor, pardon me, but what kind of disease is
>philosophy?".
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>You are saying that to this question "What kind of disease is
>philosophy?"), there is no short answer?
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Right.
Wittgenstein thought philosophy was a disease. So did Marx and Heidegger, btw.
I'm always telling my kids I'm not that kind of doctor, I'm a metaphysician.
Another joke: the young lady brings her fiance, the philosophy PhD, home to meet the parents. Mother takes the girl aside and whispers, "By you he's a doctor, and by me he's a doctor, but by the doctors is he a doctor?"
jks
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