2007-10-14 07:26:01 · 2 answers · asked by UIH2***45IJM 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
The thing is, for example, that the ironic song is not really about irony.
Rain on your wedding day,
A free ride when you already paid,
Good advice ya' just didn't take,
Meetin' the man of yer' dreams...then his beautiful wife...
Those things are bad coincidence, or bad choices, but they aren't ironic.
Irony is all about willfully setting out to do SOMETHING, and then actually causing the opposite (or the unintended) to happen.
For example, let's say a mother hates the wife of her son. The wife is over bearing and demanding. The son always complains about her. So the mom concocts a plan to kill the wife and make it look like an accident without telling the son.
But then, the assassin screws up and gets caught in the act and killed by the son before he kills the wife.
Then the wife is so grateful to the son that now she loves him, worships him and thinks he's her hero. The son is now totally happy with the marriage.
That's a great example of irony!
Great philosophers who've influenced us also have caused the unintended. Consequently, there is a very interesting ironic thread in philosophy.
Before he died, Karl Marx said that he was not a Marxist.
Kant sought to refute Hume, but he paved the way for Hegel.
Locke argued for religious toleration, but he cracked open the orb of truth, leading to existentialism and relativity of truth.
Isn't it ironic...a little bit too ironic, don't you think?
Irony isn't choice oriented, it's results oriented...that's where it gets confusing.
2007-10-14 07:28:58 · answer #1 · answered by M O R P H E U S 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
it's that you lose them when you make them
2007-10-14 15:41:42 · answer #2 · answered by Jean Anderson 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋