The voice goes on for days saying, “Alvin, sell your business for three million dollars!” After weeks of this, he relents and sells his store. “Alvin is working in his store when he hears a booming voice from above that says, “Alvin, sell your business!” He ignores it. Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates: Using Philosophy (and Jokes!) to Explore Life, Death, the Afterlife, and Everything in Between “Tell me about the day you died,” he said to the third man. I managed to grab the balcony of the apartment below me but then some maniac came out and started pounding my fingers with a hammer! I fell, but I landed in some bushes and lived! But then this guy came out again and dropped a refrigerator on me! That did it!” Saint Peter chuckled a bit, and let him into Heaven. I was doing aerobics on the balcony of my apartment when I slipped over the edge. He then asked the next man in line about the day he died. It crushed him, but the strain of hefting the fridge gave me a heart attack and I died.” Saint Peter couldn’t deny this was an awful day and that it was a crime of passion, so he let the man enter Heaven. So I went inside, picked up the refrigerator, and pushed it out over the balcony. He fell, but landed in some bushes and survived. So I went inside, got a hammer, and started hitting his hands. So finally I went out on the balcony, where I found this man hanging over the edge by his fingertips. I searched all over the apartment and couldn’t find her lover anywhere. I was sure my wife was having an affair, so I came home early from work to catch her in the act. On the first morning of the new policy, Saint Peter said to the first man in line, “Tell me about the day you died.” The man said,“Oh, it was awful. “It got crowded in Heaven, so Saint Peter decided to accept only people who’d had a really bad day on the day they died. Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes To put it another way, take away Socrates’s rationality, and he’s no longer Socrates, but give him plastic surgery, and he’s Socrates with a nose job.”
He wouldn’t even be a human being, so how could he be Socrates? On the other hand, Aristotle thought that Socrates’s property of being snub-nosed was merely accidental snub-nosed was part of how Socrates was, but it wasn’t essential to what or who he was. Without the property of rationality, Socrates simply wouldn’t be Socrates. For example, Aristotle thought that rationality was essential to being a human being and, since Socrates was a human being, Socrates’s rationality was essential to his being Socrates. The way he put it is that essential properties are those without which a thing wouldn’t be what it is, and accidental properties are those that determine how a thing is, but not what it is. “Aristotle drew a distinction between essential and accidental properties.
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