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. A ribald refresher course for those in-the-know or hilarious starter class, this makes Big Ideas a hoot to understand. 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. Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Kleins book Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes is the perfect thing for a smart and. 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. Item #326914 ISBN: 081091493X A very good copy no dust jacket. Cathcart, Thomas, Klein, Daniel Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through JokesĪbrams Image, May 2007. Klein, Daniel M., 1939- author Bookplateleaf 0003 Boxid IA1258911 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection.
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