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Plato And a Platypus Walk Into A Bar... Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes

Categorie	Filosofie
Boeknummer	#356880-ZD24
Titel	Plato And a Platypus Walk Into A Bar... Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
Auteur	Cathcart, Thomas & Daniel Klein
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover
Uitgeverij	New York, NY : Abrams Image
Jaar van uitgave	2007
ISBN10	9056372335
ISBN13	9789056372330
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original decorated half cloth, small 8vo.
Samenvatting	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 des... (Lees verder)ert 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...
Pagina's	200
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 8,00

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