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Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar...: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
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Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar...: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes Hardcover - 2007 - 1st Edition

by Thomas Cathcart; Daniel Klein


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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...

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  • Title Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar...: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
  • Author Thomas Cathcart; Daniel Klein
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 200
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harry N. Abrams, New York
  • Date March 1, 2007
  • ISBN 9780810914933 / 081091493X
  • Weight 0.61 lbs (0.28 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.12 x 5.4 x 0.82 in (18.08 x 13.72 x 2.08 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Philosophy, Philosophy - Humor
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006028944
  • Dewey Decimal Code 102.07
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