Plato and a platypus walk into a bar-- : understanding philosophy through jokes

Responsibility: Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein.
Imprint: New York : Abrams Image, 2006, c2007.
Physical description: 200 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.

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Creators/Contributors

Author/Creator: Cathcart, Thomas, 1940-
Contributor: Klein, Daniel M.

Contents/Summary

Contents

Philogagging: an introduction
Metaphysics
Logic
Epistemology
Ethics
Philosophy of religion
Existentialism
Philosophy of language
Social and political philosophy
Relativity
Meta-philosophy
Summa time: a conclusion.

Publisher's summary

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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