Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Riddle - Philosophical Answers

Why did the chicken cross the road?


Plato:    For the greater good.

Jean-Paul Sartre:    In order to act in good faith and be true to itself, the chicken found it necessary to cross the road.

Karl Marx:    It was a historical inevitability.

Nietzsche:    Because if you gaze too long across the Road, the Road gazes also across you.

Carl Jung:    The confluence of events in the cultural gestalt necessitated that individual chickens cross roads at this historical juncture, and therefore synchronicitously brought such occurrences into being.

Aristotle:    To actualize its potential.

Darwin:    It was the logical next step after coming down from the trees.

Epicurus:    For fun.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:    It didn't cross the road; it transcended it.

Johann von Goethe:    The eternal hen-principle made it do it.

Ernest Hemingway:    To die. In the rain.

Werner Heisenberg:    We are not sure which side of the road the chicken was on, but it was moving very fast.

David Hume:    Out of custom and habit.....

My daughter gave the link to site, so if you wish to view the full list go to philosophy.eserver.org

God Bless:
Bluesman

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