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

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

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This New York Times bestseller is the hilarious philosophy course everyone wishes they’d had in school

Outrageously funny, Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . . has been a breakout bestseller ever since authors—and born vaudevillians—Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein did their schtick on NPR’s Weekend Edition. Lively, original, and powerfully informative, Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar . . . is a not-so-reverent crash course through the great philosophical thinkers and traditions, from Existentialism (What do Hegel and Bette Midler have in common?) to Logic (Sherlock Holmes never deduced anything). Philosophy 101 for those who like to take the heavy stuff lightly, this is a joy to read—and finally, it all makes sense!

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A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy

A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy Review

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An Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy (Wiley Desktop Editions)

An Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy (Wiley Desktop Editions) Review

This illustrated edition of Sir Anthony Kenny's acclaimed survey of Western philosophy offers the most concise and compelling story of the complete development of philosophy available.

Spanning 2,500 years of thought, An Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy provides essential coverage of the most influential philosophers of the Western world, among them Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Jesus, Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Berkeley, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Mill, Nietzsche, Darwin, Freud, Frege, Russell, and Wittgenstein.

Replete with over 60 illustrations - ranging from Dufresnoy's The Death of Socrates, through to the title page of Thomas More's Utopia, portraits of Hobbes and Rousseau, photographs of Charles Darwin and Bertrand Russell, Freud's own sketch of the Ego and the Id, and Wittgenstein's Austrian military identity card - this lucid and masterful work is ideal for anyone with an interest in Western thought.

The Ultimate Anthology of Philosophy (75+ Works with an active table of contents)

The Ultimate Anthology of Philosophy (75+ Works with an active table of contents) Review

This massive anthology of philosophy contains over 75 works by a dozen of the most know philosophers of all time. An active table of contents makes it easy to quickly to the work you want.

Authors and books include:
Aeschylus:
Agamemnon
Bound and Seven Against Thebes
The House of Atreus
Maidens and Other Plays

Aristotle:
The Athenian Constitution
The Categories
Ethics
The Poetics of Aristotle

Francis Bacon:
The Advancement of Learning
The Essays of Francis Bacon
The New Atlantis
Valerius Terminus

George Berkeley:
An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision
The Querist
Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

Giordano Bruno:
An Ethical Poem

Rene Descartes:
A Discourse on Method
Principles of Philosophy

Euripides:
Alcestis
The Electra
Hippolytus & The Bacchae
Tragedies of Euripides
The Trojan Women

Thomas Hobbes:
Leviathan

Homer:
The Iliad
Odyssey

David Hume:
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688
A Treatise of Human Nature

Immanuel Kant:
The Critique of Practical Reason
The Critique of Pure Reason
Fundamental Principals of the Metaphysic of Morals
The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics

John Locke:
An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding: Volume 1
An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding: Volume 2
A Letter Concerning Toleration
Two Treatises of Government

Plato:
Alcibiades I
Alcibiades II
Apology
Charmides
Cratylus
Critias
Crito
Euthydemus
Euthyphro
Gorgias
Ion
Laches
Lesser Hippias
Lysis
Menexenus
Meno
Parmenides
Phaedo
Phaedrus
Protagoras
The Republic
Sophist
Statesman
Symposium
Theaetetus
Timaeus

Jean Jacques Rousseau:
The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau
A Discourse Upon The Origin And The Foundation Of The Inequality Among Mankind
Emile

Sophocles:
Oedipus the King

Benedict de Spinoza:
The Ethics
On the Improvement of the Understanding
A Theologico-Political Treatise: Part I
A Theologico-Political Treatise: Part II
A Theologico-Political Treatise: Part III
A Theologico-Political Treatise: Part IV

Contributions to Philosophy: Of the Event (Studies in Continental Thought)

Contributions to Philosophy: Of the Event (Studies in Continental Thought) Review

Martin Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy reflects his famous philosophical "turning." In this work, Heidegger returns to the question of being from its inception in Being and Time to a new questioning of being as event. Heidegger opens up the essential dimensions of his thinking on the historicality of being that underlies all of his later writings. Contributions was composed as a series of private ponderings that were not originally intended for publication. They are nonlinear and radically at odds with the traditional understanding of thinking. This new translation presents Heidegger in plain and straightforward terms, allowing surer access to this new turn in Heidegger's conception of being.

The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers Review

The Story of Philosophy chronicles the ideas of the great thinkers, the economic and intellectual environments which influenced them, and the personal traits and adventures out of which each philosophy grew.

Understanding Kant: Concepts and Intuitions (Understanding Western Philosophy)

Understanding Kant: Concepts and Intuitions (Understanding Western Philosophy) Review

This essay-length guide examines Kant's theory of knowledge, specifically his arguments for separating human thought into concepts and intuitions. Based on the Critique of Pure Reason, this guide covers his critique of empirical and rational thought, and explains key concepts such as a priori judgements, analytic and synthetic judgements, and the difference between pure and empirical concepts.