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Plato and a platypus walk into a bar-- : understanding philosophy through jokes / Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein.

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Van Pelt Library BD31 .C38 2006
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English
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Physical Description:
200 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Place of Publication:
New York : Abrams Image, 2006.
Summary:
Heres a lively, hilarious, not-so-reverent crash course through the great philosophical traditions, schools, concepts, and thinkers; its Philosophy 101 for everyone who knows not to take all this heavy stuff too seriously. Some included Big Ideas are 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. . .), Language (It depends what your definition of "is" is), and much more. Finallyit all makes sense!
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.
ISBN:
  • 081091493X
  • 9780810914933
OCLC:
71312724

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