Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar... - Cathcart Thomas; Klein Daniel
Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
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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 ...
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199 (1) p. Hardcover (In very good condition.) New York, Abrams Image 2007 [Auteur: Cathcart, Thomas/Klein, Daniel] [Jaar: 2007] [Titel: Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar... Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes]
