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Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar...: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes (Hardback)
Short Description for Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar...A crash course in philosophy, this work takes us on a funny tour through the great philosophical traditions, schools, concepts and thinkers. The topics include: Logic (Sherlock Holmes never deduced anything!), analogies, fallacies, circular arguments, paradoxes Kant's antinomies, Social & Political Philosophy, among others.
Full description- Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
- Published: 01 April 2007
- Format: Hardback 208 pages
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- Categories: Philosophy | History Of Western Philosophy | Humour
- ISBN 13: 9780810914933 ISBN 10: 081091493X
- Sales rank: 82,598
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Full description for Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar...
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...
