Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Comedy
- Negative influence
- John Chrysostom
- "Laughter often gives birth to foul discourse, and foul discourse to
actions still more foul. Often from words and laughter proceed
railing and insult; and from railing and insult, blows and wounds."
- Superiority Theory
- Hobbes
- Our laughter expresses feelings of
superiority over other people or over a
former state of ourselves.
- Schopenhauer
- "The laugh of scorn announces with triumph
to the baffled adversary how incongruous
were the conceptions he cherished with the
reality which is now revealing itself to him."
- Incongruity Theory
- Kant
- "In everything that it to excite a lively
convulsive laugh there must be
something absurd."
- Schopenhauer
- "The cause of
laughter in every
case is simply the
sudden perception of
the incongruity
between a concept
and the real objects
which have been
thought through it in
some relation."
- The cause of laughter is the perception of
something incongruous - something that
violates our mental patterns and perceptions.
- Relief Theory
- John Dewey
- "Laughter marks the ending...
of a period of suspense, or
expectation."