Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar...: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes - Hardcover

Cathcart, Thomas; Klein, Daniel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 081091493X ISBN 13: 9780810914933

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2007

Synopsis

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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a The zaniest bestseller of the year.a
a"The Boston Globe"
a I laughed, I learned, I loved it.a
aRoy Blount, Jr.

The zaniest bestseller of the year.
"The Boston Globe"
I laughed, I learned, I loved it.
Roy Blount, Jr.

? The zaniest bestseller of the year.?
?"The Boston Globe"

? I laughed, I learned, I loved it.?
?Roy Blount, Jr.

"The zaniest bestseller of the year."--"The Boston Globe"
"I laughed, I learned, I loved it."--Roy Blount, Jr.

The zaniest bestseller of the year. "The Boston Globe"
I laughed, I learned, I loved it. Roy Blount, Jr."

The zaniest bestseller of the year. The Boston Globe
I laughed, I learned, I loved it. Roy Blount, Jr."

"The zaniest bestseller of the year."--The Boston Globe

"I laughed, I learned, I loved it."--Roy Blount, Jr.

"[Cathcart and Klein] know their stuff, and wear their learnedness lightly, and Plato and a Platypus is a pleasure to read....I can't help but love this book, and I have been quoting liberally from it" --Philosophy Now

"A Hoot." --Times Literary Supplement

"What happens when you mix corny jokes, one-liners and vaudeville humour with some of life's great lessons? You get an extraordinary read you'll want to share with as many people as possible." --Orlando Sentinel

"The zaniest bestseller of the year." --The Boston Globe

"I laughed, I learned, I loved it." --Roy Blount, Jr.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 081091493X
• ISBN 13: 9780810914933
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200