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Author : Tetris Tetris
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 136559257X
Total Pages : 17 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (655 download)
Download or read book Philosophical Banter written by Tetris Tetris and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ted Cohen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022651143X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Serious Larks written by Ted Cohen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-04-13 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ted Cohen was an original and captivating essayist known for his inquisitive intelligence, wit, charm, and a deeply humane feel for life. For Cohen, writing was a way of discovering, and also celebrating, the depth and complexity of things overlooked by most professional philosophers and aestheticians—but not by most people. Whether writing about the rules of baseball, of driving, or of Kant’s Third Critique; about Hitchcock, ceramics, or jokes, Cohen proved that if you study the world with a bemused but honest attentiveness, you can find something to philosophize about more or less anywhere. This collection, edited and introduced by philosopher Daniel Herwitz, brings together some of Cohen’s best work to capture the unique style that made Cohen one of the most beloved philosophers of his generation. Among the perceptive, engaging, and laugh-out-loud funny reflections on movies, sports, art, language, and life included here are Cohen’s classic papers on metaphor and his Pushcart Prize–winning essay on baseball, as well as memoir, fiction, and even poetry. Full of free-spirited inventiveness, these Serious Larks would be equally at home outside Thoreau’s cabin on the waters of Walden Pond as they are here, proving that intelligence, sensitivity, and good humor can be found in philosophical writing after all.
Author : Thomas Cathcart
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440634238
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . . written by Thomas Cathcart and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-06-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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! And now, you can read Daniel Klein's further musings on life and philosophy in Travels with Epicurus and Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change it.
Author : Gary Cox
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472567285
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book Deep Thought written by Gary Cox and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gary Cox guides us through 42 of the most misunderstood, misquoted, provocative and significant quotes in the history of philosophy providing a witty and compelling commentary along the way. This entertaining and illuminating collection of quotes doesn't merely list who said what and when, it explores who each philosopher is and what he or she really meant when they said what they said. Viewing each quote as a philosophical thesis in itself, Cox probes the writings of everyone from Douglas Adams to A.J. Ayer and Thomas Aquinas to Karl Marx. This is a philosophical journey through history, culture and writing to bring us to a deeper understanding of why we think the way we do. As Douglas Adams points out, if there is no final answer to the question, 'What is the meaning of life?', '42' is as good or bad an answer as any other. Here Cox shows that 42 quotes might be even better!
Author : Martin Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134507534
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)
Download or read book 101 Ethical Dilemmas written by Martin Cohen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Jerome K. Jerome
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book The Philosopher's Joke written by Jerome K. Jerome and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'The Philosopher's Joke' by Jerome K. Jerome, readers are taken on a whimsical journey of philosophical musings and clever humor. The book is infused with witty dialogue and insightful observations about human nature, making it a delightful and thought-provoking read. Jerome's writing style is light-hearted yet filled with depth, blending elements of satire and comedy seamlessly. Set in a fictional world where a philosopher's joke has the power to change the course of events, the book challenges readers to question the nature of reality and perception. This unique blend of humor and philosophy sets 'The Philosopher's Joke' apart from other works of its time, showcasing Jerome's talent for combining intellect with entertainment. Fans of philosophical literature and humorous storytelling will find this book to be a captivating and memorable read.
Author : Thomas Cathcart
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143118250
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates written by Thomas Cathcart and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Q. Why are there almost as many jokes about death as there are about sex? A. Because they both scare the pants off us. Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein first made a name for themselves with the outrageously funny New York Times bestseller Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar.... Now they turn their attention to the Big "D" and share the timeless wisdom of the great philosophers, theologians, psychotherapists, and wiseguys. From angels to zombies and everything in between, Cathcart and Klein offer a fearless and irreverent history of how we approach death, why we embrace life, and whether there really is a hereafter. As hilarious as it is enlightening, Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates is a must-read for anyone and everyone who ever expects to die. And now, you can read Daniel Klein's further musings on life and philosophy in Travels with Epicurus and Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change it.
Author : Vaibhav Chopra
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781795771931
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (719 download)
Download or read book Millennial Philosopher written by Vaibhav Chopra and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-02-04 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Come for the philosophy, stay for the dick jokes."Young and confused? This one's for you. If Socrates or Confucius were millennials, how would they perceive the world? What kind of solutions would they provide to the problems that trouble our youngsters? "Can money buy other forms of happiness too if it can buy weed?""Can aliens watch me masturbate?""Will there be a third World War if chocolates go extinct?""If I like having sex, should I try my luck in the porn industry?"If you any of the above questions, first of all "You're weird" and second of all, you have come to the right place. In his book, Vaibhav Chopra, a millennial himself, attempts to answer these questions with a sense of humour that requires a facial pimple density greater than five per square decimetres, both to write and understand, He explains what's going on in his mind and his stand on different arguments in classic youngster lingo, where decency and politeness get thrown under the bus to make room for pure awesomeness. Coming from a generation that can change its feeling and philosophies by the click of a button on their smartphones, Vaibhav examines humans and the things they do in a way that's "not polite to the pronoun" if you know what we mean. Even the author isn't free from the bipolarity that comes with pubic hair to the teenagers. At one moment, he makes you feel like you are the worst person in this world and the next, you will feel like the stars "ain't got nothin' on ya" when it comes to shining. Atheism, existentialism, nihilism, and even reality itself is questioned. Nothing is off-limits. Either you'll rip your hair out in frustration, or you'll be amazed enough to run on the streets naked shouting- "Eureka! I've found it."To contact the author, use: [email protected] ( because [email protected] was already taken)
Author : Thomas Cathcart
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143133039
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book I Think, Therefore I Draw written by Thomas Cathcart and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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... 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. 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. 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. Cathcart and Klein's Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar... and Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates have been a favorite of philosophers and non-philosophers alike for years. Packed with dozens of witty cartoons and loaded with profound philosophical insight, I Think, Therefore I Draw will delight readers and leave them enlightened.
Author : Lesedi Molefi
Publisher : Pan Macmillan South africa
ISBN 13 : 1770107754
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Patient 12A written by Lesedi Molefi and published by Pan Macmillan South africa. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Brave, poetic, brutal, always honest. By leading the reader through his chaotic childhood and immersing us in a mental health treatment centre, Lesedi forces us to confront conversations that are often hard to have. I was moved and challenged.’ – GAVIN WEALE So here I am, at a psychiatric hospital, looking for myself in a building I’ve never been to before. A few nights ago, I was ready to rid myself of myself. I still am, only, in a different way ... Patient 12A is Lesedi Molefi’s absorbing memoir, reflecting on his time spent in a psychiatric clinic in 2016. With vulnerability and candour, Lesedi reflects on the moments, large and small, that led him there. It is at once a personal history, an observation of how childhood experiences can have a profound effect on the adults we become, and a commentary on how mental illness remains a difficult conversation in black families. More than anything, in Patient 12A, Lesedi allows himself to filter out the noise in his head to find the truth, however uncomfortable that may be.
Author : Eduardo Mendieta
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791479277
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Global Fragments written by Eduardo Mendieta and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Fragments offers an innovative analysis of globalization that aims to circumvent the sterile dichotomies that either praise or demonize globalization. Eduardo Mendieta applies an interdisciplinary approach to one of the most fundamental experiences of globalization: the mega-urbanization of humanity. The claim that globalization unsettles our epistemic maps of the world is tested against a study of Latin America. Mendieta also recontextualizes the work of three major theorists of globalization—Enrique Dussel, Cornel West, and Jürgen Habermas—to show how their thinking reflects engagement with central problems of globalization and, conversely, how globalization itself is exemplified through the reception of their work. Beyond the epistemic hubris of social theories that seek to accept or reject a globalized world, Mendieta calls for a dialogic cosmopolitanism that departs from the mutuality of teaching and learning in a world that is global but not totalized.
Author : Eric Noss
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1469796295
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (697 download)
Download or read book In Hyval's Wake written by Eric Noss and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Imperials have been defeated. The Liberation has placed Iyennya Farin and her new husband Darvin Hegg on the throne, tasked with reuniting the people of the Garden after a vicious civil war. Spirit Knight Aralon Mittel has learned about the dark entity living inside his mind. And he is promised to set out with Mist Elf Kiyana Irhan and fellow Spirit Knight Jinn Talmaniss to meet the mysterious Pilgrim in the Mists. A greater storm rumbles beyond the borders of the Garden. And it all begins with what has become of Hyval, Aralon's missing brother. Separate paths come to cross, and conflicts erupt that put the very balance of the world at risk.
Author : Anne Burleigh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351510673
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book John Adams written by Anne Burleigh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: man for the ages. John Adams, philosopher of the Revolution and early America, and participant in many of the major events of that period, strove to fi nd universal patterns in the lives of all men. His life and ideas are as pertinent to our time as they were to his own. We still ponder the nature of the unbreakable bond between liberty and law. As did Adams, we question how to relate the goal of freedom to the authority necessary in political society.
Author : J. T. Frederick
Publisher : Theorism Press
ISBN 13 : 0645180203
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (451 download)
Download or read book In Arthur's Nature written by J. T. Frederick and published by Theorism Press. This book was released on 2021-05-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1831, philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer pushed his neighbour down the stairs of their Frankfurt residence. Inspired by this true event and his actual writings, the novel reimagines the life of the fractured thinker as it blurs the boundaries between Arthur's theoretical beliefs and his physical existence. Caroline Marquet, a talented painter, has endured her own dark past, but her future is about to become even darker at the hands of the man across the hall. For although Arthur lectures on kindness, he views the world through a prism of metaphysical Nature where all human desires are the work of a malevolent will. Unleashed from its theoretical constraints, the will burdens the philosopher with an aggressive pessimism, festering an obsessively vengeful relationship with Caroline which results in a missing student, criminal charges, and shattered lives. Arthur's thesis on will, natural law, and morality, which develops through the novel, ultimately determines its outcome. Can the philosopher escape the fate he has written for himself, or must he, and indeed humankind, forever suffer In Arthur's Nature?
Author : Michael Freeman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317107438
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Law, Mind and Brain written by Michael Freeman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past 20 years, cognitive neuroscience has revolutionized our ability to understand the nature of human thought. Working with the understandings of traditional psychology, the new brain science is transforming many disciplines, from economics to literary theory. These developments are now affecting the law and there is an upsurge of interest in the potential of neuroscience to contribute to our understanding of criminal and civil law and our system of justice in general. The international and interdisciplinary chapters in this volume are written by experts in criminal behaviour, civil law and jurisprudence. They concentrate on the potential of neuroscience to increase our understanding of blame and responsibility in such areas as juveniles and the death penalty, evidence and procedure, neurological enhancement and treatment, property, end-of-life choices, contracting and the effects of words and pictures in law. This collection suggests that legal scholarship and practice will be increasingly enriched by an interdisciplinary study of law, mind and brain and is a valuable addition to the emerging field of neurolaw.
Author : Ali Naqvi
Publisher : Ali Naqvi
ISBN 13 : 1461047285
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Acadia, Book I written by Ali Naqvi and published by Ali Naqvi. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was only a nightmare at first, but Damont soon realizes that he can see into the future-a curse he has to live with for being the only son of a king dead for a thousand years, with a mother who is the goddess of time. A man in black armor with a face as obscure as the shadows mantling him laughs wickedly. Who is he and why does he continue to haunt me, Damont wonders. Appearing only in his dreams, the man in the black armor stands alone and laughs high as if to mock him while the world around him burns to cinder. "They are not dreams, my son," a voice calls out to him in a vision after the many nightmares-claiming to be his mother whom abandoned him when he was but a child. "They are shards of a broken world to come if you so take the path of your father." If such a path does lie ahead beyond a throne that sits vacant for centuries, with an empire in the east growling for war, then Damont Langörn realizes he has but one choice: follow the visions and seek out the truth lost to both him and the world behind his lineage-but will he be strong enough to face such a malevolent foe of his nightmares? With a vampire and a sorceress at his side, Damont begins his journey, but such a road is not an easy one to take if the gods themselves do not wish for his return as the king who would unite the world against their existence and bring demise to their very doorstep.
Author : Janet Azevedo
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1628381760
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (283 download)
Download or read book A Promise In Portugal written by Janet Azevedo and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At 81 years old, Evalina da Rosa, a very wealthy widow, decided to begin her life anew. She had survived a marriage of 60 years to a man whose moral code was non-existent. But her essential optimism had not faded, only dimmed. She was determined to find joy before she passed on to the next world and her methods were distinctly at odds with 1901 Lisbon society. She placed an ad in the city's largest newspaper requesting applicants for an open position - her husband. Shortly before the time t
