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Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes

Here's a lively, hilarious, not-so-reverent crash course through the great philosophical traditions, schools, concepts, and thinkers. It's Philosophy 101 for everyone who knows not to take all this heavy stuff too seriously.

Some of the Big Ideas are Existentialism (what do Hegel and Bette Midler have in common?), Philosophy of Language (how to express what it's like being stranded on a desert island with Halle Berry), Feminist Philosophy (why, in the end, a man is always a man), and much more. Finally-it all makes sense!

Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes

Plato and the Platypus describes the findings of the great philosophers throughout history who have conducted the search after wisdom and taught their explanations of phenomena. And then it illustrates the causes and reasons, the powers and laws, with jokes--good jokes, relevant jokes, jokes that made me laugh aloud even as they stimulated my own search.



Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes [Hardcover]

Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes [Hardcover]

Loving wisdom through laughter

The Roman satirist Juvenal famously quipped "Difficile est saturam non scibere" -- it's difficult not to write satire. It was difficult nearly two millennia ago, and Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein prove it still is today.
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Delightful, accessible, educational romp

A perfect match! I'm finding it such a joy to see the depth behind jokes and the levity in philosophy. I wish that "Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar" had been required reading when I was in school.

Explore Life, Death, the Afterlife, and Everything in Between

"Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates" is a surprisingly funny and nuanced view of the meaning of life, with special emphasis on the views of classical philosophers. The format will be familiar to those that have read Cathcart and Klein's "Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar" -- some serious philosophy, a good joke or two, and a series of delightful cartoons on relevant topics.



Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates: Using Philosophy (and Jokes!) to Explore Life, Death, the Afterlife, and Everything in Between [Paperback]

Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates: Using Philosophy (and Jokes!) to Explore Life, Death, the Afterlife, and Everything in Between [Paperback]

Thomas Cathcart

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Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to Washington by Thomas Cathcart, Daniel Klein

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Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . .: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes by Thomas Cathcart, Daniel Klein

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Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates: Using Philosophy (and Jokes!) to Explore Life, Death, the Afterlife, and Everything in Between by Thomas Cathcart, Daniel Klein

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Plato and a Platypus / Aristotle and an Aardvark Boxed Set (Box Set) by Thomas Cathcart, Daniel Klein

Plato and a Platypus / Aristotle and an Aardvark Boxed Set (Box Set) by Thomas Cathcart, Daniel Klein

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Table of Contents

  1. Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
  2. Loving wisdom through laughter
  3. Delightful, accessible, educational romp
  4. Explore Life, Death, the Afterlife, and Everything in Between
  5. Thomas Cathcart

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