Sunday, August 03, 2008

Does philosophy need bumper stickers?

John Beversluis told me he once considered marketing some philosophy bumper stickers, such as the following:

Concepts without percepts are blind.
Everything is water.
Asses prefer straw to gold.
You can't step into the same river twice.
Monads are windowless.
Are synthetic a priori judgments possible?
Existence precedes essence.
"X (Hegel, Plato, Hume) said it, I believe it, and that settles it."

I suggest this one:

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Any more ideas?
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12 comments:

  1. normajeanAugust 03, 2008 4:23 PM

    Why is there something rather than nothing at all?

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  2. AnonymousAugust 03, 2008 5:16 PM

    Plato Republican

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  3. AnonymousAugust 03, 2008 9:53 PM

    I heard Moreland say in a lecture he has one that says "I break for universals".

    Love it.

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  4. AnonymousAugust 04, 2008 4:57 AM

    We don't really do bumper stickers in the UK. Maybe a little light profundity is okay in the US, but over we don't like being made to think that hard. So for the UK market ...

    If you can read this, then you exist.
    Down with Bumper Stickers.
    Colourless green ideas sleep furiously.

    Steve

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  5. EdwardtbabinskiAugust 04, 2008 7:54 PM

    I Drive, Therefore I Am.
    - Descarte Andretti

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  6. AnonymousAugust 05, 2008 10:49 AM

    The unlived life is not worth examining.

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  7. Bill SneddenAugust 05, 2008 12:05 PM

    My other car is a Ford or Brown is in Barcelona

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  8. exapologistAugust 05, 2008 12:13 PM

    My other car is a Ford or Brown is in Barcelona

    ;-) I may have to get that one.

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  9. AnonymousAugust 05, 2008 2:30 PM

    Kant: Lewd Phantasies

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  10. AnonymousAugust 06, 2008 12:29 PM

    Victor's suggestions are excellent.

    How about 'My other car is having an existential crisis'

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  11. Victor ReppertAugust 06, 2008 4:06 PM

    Actually, most of them are my good friend but philosophical arch-opponent John Beversluis.

    Also the originator of both the moniker "argument from desire" and "argument from reason."

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  12. AnonymousAugust 13, 2008 11:06 PM

    The obvious one is the solipsist bumper sticker:

    "Yes. I do think I'm the only person on the road."

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