Should the philosopher discourage laughter?
Simon Critchley is suspicious of it, but Foucault found laughter at every revelation. Plato disliked it intensely, and Hobbes, ambiguously, described it thus :
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“Laughter. Sudden glory, is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter; and is caused either by some act of their own, that pleaseth them; or by the apprehension of some deformed thing in another, by comparison whereof they suddenly applaud themselves” (Leviathan 52).
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