Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar…: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes-Quality Guarantee

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Title: Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar…: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes

Author: Thomas Cathcart

ISBN: 9780810914933

Publisher: Abrams Image

Published: 2007

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Edition: 1

Number of Pages: 208

Condition: Used Copy

Publisher : This lively crash course in philosophy takes us on a hilarious – and at the same time, profound – tour through the great philosophical traditions, schools, concepts and thinkers. All with a light touch. As if being led on an intellectual adventure by a brilliant stand-up comic, the reader experiences light-hearted excursions through this weightiest of disciplines – laughing all the way. A ribald refresher course for those in-the-know or hilarious starter class, this makes Big Ideas a hoot to understand. Topics include: Logic (Sherlock Holmes never deduced anything!), analogies, fallacies, circular arguments, paradoxes Kant’s antinomies, Social & Political Philosophy (Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau were probably nudists!), Philosophy of Religion (a priest and a rabbi are stranded on a desert island…), Existentialism (what do Hegel and Bette Midler have in common?), Ethics and Aesthetics (a dog and a cat are sitting in this tree…), Epistemology (how do you know that you know the stuff you know?), Language (it depends what your definition of is) and more…