Thomas Cathcart, Daniel M. Klein - Plato and a platypus walk in
| Schrijver: | Thomas Cathcart, Daniel M. Klein |
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| Titel: | Plato and a platypus walk into a bar-- Understanding philosophy through jokes |
| ISBN: | 9780810914933 |
| Taal: | Engels |
| Uitgever: | Abrams |
| Bijzonderheden: | Goed, 2007, Halflinnen, 200p |
| Prijs: | € 8,00 |
| Verzendkosten: | € 3,50 (binnen Nederland) |
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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 depends what your definition of is ) and more...
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