LASKAVOST A HOŘKOST HUMORU V ÚVAHÁCH LOUISE CAZAMIANA

• Authors: Ševčík Miloš

Title variants

EN

Kindness and bitterness of humour in the reflections of Louis Cazamian

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The article deals with the problem of kindness of humour in the context of Louis Cazamian’s theory of humour. It highlights Cazamian’s suggestion that the idea of kindness of humour is an outcome of a specific myth. This myth shows the English nation is particularly endowed for humorous witticism, because the spirit of this nation is realistic, piquant and full of cordiality. Cazamian maintains that this myth must be criticized and dismissed, but he also suggests that it, to a certain degree, reflects the nature of experience with humour. Further, the article follows Cazamian’s detailed investigation into various aspects of the relation of kindness and humour. He emphasizes that humour, as a specific kind of mixture of natural and unnatural approach to reality, results in relativism of thought that is not far from tolerance and kindness. He shows as well that kindness is an important part of affectability and affectability is the basis of an important kind of humour. And he also suggests that the apparent kindness of a humourist presents a kind of his or her trick, which he or she uses to calm a person criticized by humorous mockery. Finally, the article stresses, in all these respects, the more detailed view shows that there is only a certain affinity between kindness and humour, not any kind of an essential relation. However, such a more detailed view also shows humour as a very complicated mechanism, in which different and even contradictory tendencies mingle.

Keywords

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CAZAMIAN LOUIS; HUMOUR; KINDNESS

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 74
• Issue: 10
• Pages: 866 – 875

Contributors

author

Ševčík Miloš

• Fakulta filozofická, Západočeská univerzita v Plzni, Plzeň, Czech Republic

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/filozofia.2019.74.10.6