Cause of Death of Philosophers

Aristotle: Excessive moderation

Bacon, F: Hit by idol in market place

Calvin: Predestined

Camus: Found exit

Darwin: Became unfit

Descartes: Stopped thinking

Diogenes: Exposure

Einstein: Diced with God

Freud: Slipped

Galileo: Stopped moving

Heidegger: Not being in time

Kant: Found the means to his own end

Kuhn: Paradigm lost

Lipton: Unexplained

Locke: No idea

Machiavelli: Intriguing causes

Marx: Material causes

Nietzsche: Overpowered himself

Pascal: The wagers of sin

Perry: Lost himself

Plato: Caved in

Putnam: Unfunctional state

Quine: Became a free variable

Rand, Ayn: Objectified ego

Ramsey: Made redundant

Rousseau: Contract job

Russell: Cut himself shaving

Sartre: Nothing doing

Schopenhauer: Lack of will

Socrates: Consumption

Spinoza: Substance abuse

Thales: Drowned

Von Wright: By obligation

Whitehead: Procession

Zeno: Run over by tortoise

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