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Heres 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 stranded on a desert island with Halle Berry), Feminist Philosophy (why, in the end, a man is always a man), and much more. Finallyit all makes sense!Cathcart, Thomas is the author of 'Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes', published 2007 under ISBN 9780810914933 and ISBN 081091493X.
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