Tag: History of ideas

• December 26, 2012

  Visions of being human: Contemplation and action

  I’ve been trying to understand what makes a certain joke funny. It is: “I’m a person. [pause] I get things done.” The pause between personhood and the completion of actions allows for one to be surprised by the identification of a person with successful action. This joke is not too far afield from Marx’s 11th…