Packed with dozens of witty cartoons and loaded with profound philosophical insight, I Think, Therefore I Draw will delight readers and leave them enlightened. and Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates have been a favorite of philosophers and non-philosophers alike for years. And since they explain with the help of a selection of some of the smartest cartoonists working today, you'll breeze through these weighty topics as you guffaw and slap your knee.Ĭathcart and Klein's Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar. Covering topics as diverse as religion, gender, knowledge, morality, and the meaning of life (or the lack thereof), I Think, Therefore I Draw gives a thorough introduction to all of the major debates in philosophy through history and the present. Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klien have been thinking deep thoughts and writing jokes for decades, and now they are here to help us understand Philosophy through cartoons, and cartoons through Philosophy. You may just learn a thing or two - but are just as likely to forget them.I can never remember the punch-line of jokes myself.A hilarious new exploration of philosophy through cartoons from the duo who brought you the New York Times bestselling Plato and a Platypus Walk Into A Bar. The barkeep looks at them and says, “What is this? A joke?Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein: The authors. He lives in western Massachusetts with his wife, Freke Vuijst. A graduate of Harvard, in philosophy, he is the co-author of twenty-five other books. Then there’s God as Civil Engineer….well, you had to be there!Other Chapters consider Epistemology, Ethics, Philosophy of Religion, Existentialism, Philosophy of Language, Social and Political Philosophy, Relativity (like what we call Chinese food, the Chinese call…food).In a chapter on Metaphilosophy, the illustration is (of course) the metajoke: A blind man, a lesbian, and a frog, walk into a bar. Daniel Klein is the author of the Times-bestseller Travels with Epicurus and the co-author, with Thomas Cathcart, of the international bestseller Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar. As is the Sherlock Holmes joke concerning deductive logic. One joke, illuminating self-serving logic is a howl.

In Chapter 1, Metaphysics, this joke helps explain the misunderstood Leibnitz and his belief of Rationalism: The optimist says, “The glass if half full.” The pessimist says, “The glass is half empty.” The rationalist says, “This glass is twice as big as it needs to be.”In Chapter 2, Logic. At the end of the day, though, you won’t come away with an in depth understanding of philosophy if the field of study is one with which are largely unfamiliar.The book is arranged by various fields of Philosophy.

And in several cases, the laughs are unique insights into various aspects of philosophy. Insights and zingers are one and the same.

Philosophy and jokes tease our minds in the same way, say the authors. I listened to this as an audio book, in the Playaway format.

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