{"id":82,"date":"2017-12-11T18:38:55","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T18:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.srfa.ro\/rrfa\/?p=82"},"modified":"2017-12-14T08:33:03","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T08:33:03","slug":"political-implications-of-humor-by-dan-panaet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.srfa.ro\/rrfa\/political-implications-of-humor-by-dan-panaet\/","title":{"rendered":"POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF HUMOR by Dan PANAET"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.srfa.ro\/rrfa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/RRFA-VIII-1-2014-03.Panaet.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">RRFA-VIII-1-2014-03.Panaet<\/a>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.srfa.ro\/rrfa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/RRFA-VIII-1-2014-03.Panaet.pdf\">Download PDF article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Author: Dan PANAET<\/p>\n<p>Abstract\u200a: This paper discusses some political implications of humor, using as a point of departure the mechanisms that explain the sources of the comical. First, I briefly present the main explanations offered for why we laugh. I then focus on the cognitive view proposed Hurley, Dennett and Adams, according to which humor carries out the epistemic function of eliminating the errors that covertly entered a mental space. In the second section of the paper, I present two accounts of how liberalism continues to extend the scope of individual liberties. I use these views on liberalism as a background for my analysis of the political implications of humor, advancing the claim that, as a result of its epistemic function, humor has a strong conservative bias.<\/p>\n<p>Keywords\u200a: humor, liberalism, conservatism, oppression, redescriptions.<\/p>\n<p>REFERENCES<br \/>\nBergson, Henri. 2003. Laughter\u200a: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic. The Project Gutenberg Etext.<br \/>\nGray, John. 1998. Hayek on Liberty, London\u200a: Routledge.<br \/>\nHamowy, Ronald. 1978. \u201eLaw and the Liberal Society\u200a: F.A. 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Cambridge University<br \/>\nPress.<br \/>\nThe Onion. 1997. \u201eRepublicans, Dadaists, Declare War On Art\u201c, The<br \/>\nOnion, http\u200a:\/\/www.theonion.com\/articles\/republicans\u2011dadaists\u2011declare\u2011war\u2011on\u2011art,858\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download PDF article Author: Dan PANAET Abstract\u200a: This paper discusses some political implications of humor, using as a point of departure the mechanisms that explain the sources of the comical. First, I briefly present the main explanations offered for why we laugh. I then focus on the cognitive view proposed Hurley, Dennett and Adams, according&hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.srfa.ro\/rrfa\/political-implications-of-humor-by-dan-panaet\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[45,43,44,46,47],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dan-panaet","tag-conservatism","tag-humor","tag-liberalism","tag-oppression","tag-redescriptions","xfolkentry","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srfa.ro\/rrfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srfa.ro\/rrfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srfa.ro\/rrfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srfa.ro\/rrfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srfa.ro\/rrfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.srfa.ro\/rrfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/www.srfa.ro\/rrfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srfa.ro\/rrfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srfa.ro\/rrfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srfa.ro\/rrfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}