Existential Comics http://existentialcomics.com Existential Comics: A comic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also jokes. en Philosophy Booth http://existentialcomics.com/comic/281 http://existentialcomics.com/comic/281 <img src="//static.existentialcomics.com/comics/philosophyBooth.png" alt="Serious historical question though, no joke: did Hegel have groupies?" title=""> Mon, 18 Mar 2019 00:00:00 PDT Potluck Economics http://existentialcomics.com/comic/280 http://existentialcomics.com/comic/280 <img src="//static.existentialcomics.com/comics/potluckEconomics1.png"> <br /><hr /><br /> <img src="//static.existentialcomics.com/comics/potluckEconomics2.png" alt=""What did you bring again, Marx?" "I brought the cake." "I thought Engels brought that." "Uh...it's from both of us."" title=""> Mon, 11 Mar 2019 00:00:00 PDT Wittgenstein Plays Scrabble http://existentialcomics.com/comic/279 http://existentialcomics.com/comic/279 <img src="//static.existentialcomics.com/comics/wittgensteinScrabble.png" alt="Board games rules are based on a fundamental mistake about the nature of fun." title=""> Mon, 04 Mar 2019 00:00:00 PDT Back to the Future http://existentialcomics.com/comic/278 http://existentialcomics.com/comic/278 <img src="//static.existentialcomics.com/comics/backToTheFuture.png" alt="The Compatibalist stance on free will and determinism is a premise of every time travel movie, and no one even seems to notice." title=""> Mon, 25 Feb 2019 00:00:00 PDT Aladdin's Wish http://existentialcomics.com/comic/277 http://existentialcomics.com/comic/277 <img src="//static.existentialcomics.com/comics/aladdin1.png"> <br /><hr /><br /> <img src="//static.existentialcomics.com/comics/aladdin2.png" alt="Also, for copyright reasons, the characters show are from the Aladdin that was made on Twin Earth. Twin Earth is exactly like normal Earth, except they never made any live action reboots." title=""> Mon, 18 Feb 2019 00:00:00 PDT Humean Child Raising http://existentialcomics.com/comic/276 http://existentialcomics.com/comic/276 <img src="//static.existentialcomics.com/comics/humeanChildRaising.png" alt="Also...God isn't real, just so you know." title=""> Mon, 11 Feb 2019 00:00:00 PDT The Vienna Circle Solves Humor http://existentialcomics.com/comic/275 http://existentialcomics.com/comic/275 <img src="//static.existentialcomics.com/comics/viennaCircleHumor1.png"> <br /><hr /><br /> <img src="//static.existentialcomics.com/comics/viennaCircleHumor2.png" alt="They have a good point though, comedy was a mistake." title=""> Mon, 04 Feb 2019 00:00:00 PDT Socrates the Cop http://existentialcomics.com/comic/274 http://existentialcomics.com/comic/274 <img src="//static.existentialcomics.com/comics/socratesTheCop1.png"> <br /><hr /><br /> <img src="//static.existentialcomics.com/comics/socratesTheCop2.png" alt="The other cops don't know how ignorant they are of what justice really is." title=""> Mon, 28 Jan 2019 00:00:00 PDT In Which Friedrich Nietzsche is a Fan of the Cleveland Browns http://existentialcomics.com/comic/273 http://existentialcomics.com/comic/273 <img src="//static.existentialcomics.com/comics/nietzscheBrownsFan1.png"> <br /><hr /><br /> <img src="//static.existentialcomics.com/comics/nietzscheBrownsFan2.png" alt="Also, Wagner is a Steelers fan and I'm rooting for them out of spite." title=""> Mon, 21 Jan 2019 00:00:00 PDT Philosophy Job Interview http://existentialcomics.com/comic/272 http://existentialcomics.com/comic/272 <img src="//static.existentialcomics.com/comics/philosophyInterview.png" alt="This is exactly how interviews go for philosophy professors and no one can convince me otherwise." title=""> Mon, 14 Jan 2019 00:00:00 PDT Epictetus Has a Bad Day http://existentialcomics.com/comic/271 http://existentialcomics.com/comic/271 <img src="//static.existentialcomics.com/comics/epictetusBadDay.png" alt="One day I'm going to intentionally make a comic that misinterprets Stoicism so bad that it'll piss off all the Stoicism nerds, and I'll be like "ha, got you!"" title=""> Mon, 07 Jan 2019 00:00:00 PDT Captain Metaphysics and the Swampman http://existentialcomics.com/comic/270 http://existentialcomics.com/comic/270 <img src="//static.existentialcomics.com/comics/captainMetaphysicsSwampman1.png"> <br /><hr /><br /> <img src="//static.existentialcomics.com/comics/captainMetaphysicsSwampman2.png" alt="What if a lightning bolt created an identical Kant, but he wasn't the most boring person alive." title=""> Mon, 31 Dec 2018 00:00:00 PDT Schopenhauer and Buddha http://existentialcomics.com/comic/269 http://existentialcomics.com/comic/269 <img src="//static.existentialcomics.com/comics/schopenhauerAndBuddha.png" alt="Premise: desire leads to suffering. Conclusion: we have to get revenge on Hegel." title=""> Mon, 24 Dec 2018 00:00:00 PDT Is a Hotdog a Sandwich? A Definitive Study. http://existentialcomics.com/comic/268 http://existentialcomics.com/comic/268 <img src="//static.existentialcomics.com/comics/hotdogSandwich1.png"> <br /><hr /><br /> <img src="//static.existentialcomics.com/comics/hotdogSandwich2.png" alt="Carnap: "But if we made an exact scientific language the usage would never be unclear!" Wittgenstein: "No, if you made an exact scientific language, it would always be unclear, because no one is going to learn your nerd language."" title=""> Mon, 17 Dec 2018 00:00:00 PDT Hume and Avicenna http://existentialcomics.com/comic/267 http://existentialcomics.com/comic/267 <img src="//static.existentialcomics.com/comics/humeAndAvicenna.png" alt="Thought experiment: what if we took other people's intuitions as seriously as our own?" title=""> Mon, 10 Dec 2018 00:00:00 PDT Karl Marx Gets a Job http://existentialcomics.com/comic/266 http://existentialcomics.com/comic/266 <img src="//static.existentialcomics.com/comics/karlMarxJob1.png"> <br /><hr /><br /> <img src="//static.existentialcomics.com/comics/karlMarxJob2.png" alt="When communism comes, everyone will greet everyone all the time, and the brandy will be free." title=""> Mon, 03 Dec 2018 00:00:00 PDT Doctor of Philosophy http://existentialcomics.com/comic/265 http://existentialcomics.com/comic/265 <img src="//static.existentialcomics.com/comics/doctorOfPhilosophy1.png"> <br /><hr /><br /> <img src="//static.existentialcomics.com/comics/doctorOfPhilosophy2.png" alt="What if I am a brain in a vat, and the brain is...a huge nerd." title=""> Mon, 26 Nov 2018 00:00:00 PDT Stoic Relationship Advice http://existentialcomics.com/comic/264 http://existentialcomics.com/comic/264 <img src="//static.existentialcomics.com/comics/stoicRelationshipAdvice.png" alt=""A perfect relationship will be achieved when neither of you cares in the slightest if the other dies."" title=""> Mon, 19 Nov 2018 00:00:00 PDT Karl Marx's Day Off http://existentialcomics.com/comic/263 http://existentialcomics.com/comic/263 <img src="//static.existentialcomics.com/comics/marxDayOff1.png"> <br /><hr /><br /> <img src="//static.existentialcomics.com/comics/marxDayOff2.png" alt="Let's be honest though, those shoes were pretty cool." title=""> Mon, 12 Nov 2018 00:00:00 PDT The Temptations of Augustine http://existentialcomics.com/comic/262 http://existentialcomics.com/comic/262 <img src="//static.existentialcomics.com/comics/temptationsOfAugustine.png" alt="I once stole a pear in Vegas, just to watch it die." title=""> Mon, 05 Nov 2018 00:00:00 PDT