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

Humor

Author: Thomas Cathcart

Here’s 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 of the Big Ideas are Existentialism (what do Hegel and Bette Midler have in common?), Philosophy of Language (how to express what its like being s….Read More

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