![]() There's a lot of supposed comedy that I just don't care for at all. People's senses of humor are pretty idiosyncratic, after all. If you think it's just dumb, well, never mind. ![]() If you're giggling too, then you and I have something in common. But this silly two-liner on page 120 just struck me as hilarious. There's humor in much of what I read, but it's usually of the cerebral variety, mild irony or absurdity, witty turns of phrase, that sort of thing even Harry Dresden's wisecracks aren't usually laugh-out-loud funny. One says to the other, "What do you think about this mad cow disease?" Six-word review: Wisdom is a fool in motley. The bartender gave the philosopher a quizzical look, and Plato said, “What can I say? She looked better in the cave.” ( ) ![]() the other day Plato and a platypus walked into a bar. Se vi rimane un po’ di curiosità, ecco la storiella che dà il titolo al libro: Non è, cioè, semplicemente una raccolta di barzellette a sfondo filosofico. Un merito, però, agli autori va riconosciuto: provano effettivamente a spiegare la filosofia attraverso le barzellette. A tratti è divertente, alcune delle battute sono buone, ma per lo più lo champagne è un po’ sgasato e la sequenza diventa stucchevole. Purtroppo, il libro di Klein e Cathcart non è altrettanto ben riuscito. Ma poi mi è venuto in mente che il libro è citato più volte nel bello studio di Hurley-Dennett-Adams, Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind, che stavo leggendo proprio in quel periodo e che ho recensito qui. Probabilmente ne avevo letto una recensione, mi andavo dicendo, oppure mi era venuta voglia di affrontare qualche cosa di leggero nella vacanze invernali. Non ricordavo con esattezza che cosa mi avesse spinto a compare questo e-book il 10 dicembre 2011. Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar …: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes. But Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar does make understanding philosophy easier to understand and fun. Jesus said, “Let whoever is without sin cast the first store.” Suddenly a rock flew through the air. The authors frequently take a well-known statement and give it a slight twist: Jesus was walking through the streets when he noticed a crowd of people throwing stones at an adulteress. Holmes replies, “Someone has stolen our tent.”Īmong the explanations for The Supreme Categorical Imperative and the Olden Golden is the observation “A sadist is masochist who follows the golden rule.” Watson then asks Holmes what it tells him. Watson says he sees “millions of stars” and Holmes asks, “What do you conclude from that?” Watson proceeds to respond in astronomical, astrological, horological, meteorological, and theological perspectives. At one point, Holmes wakes Watson, tells him to look at the sky, and say what he sees. Watson on a camping trip and spending the night in a tent. In Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar : Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes, Thomas Cathcart, Daniel Klein use jokes to explain various philosophical theories.įor example, For Inductive Logic, the situation is Sherlock Holmes and Dr. While many people are interested in learning about philosophy, actually doing something about it often results in rolling eyes. There is no need to be lost and confused - the answers are available. Long ago I found answers to those questions. The book gets to this point on page 182: "We never hear about hairdressers pondering: 'What is haridressing?' If a hairdresser doesn't know what hairdressing is, he's in the wrong line of work." They only introduce us to partial differential equations, and are 5 cm thick. Then in college we get books like: Introduction to Partial Differential Equations. Titles such as: "All About Fish", "All About Electricity" are at my local library. In elementary school, they have "all about" books that are about 1 cm thick. And here is this graduate school professor who doesn't know what money is. Then he answered his own question: 'We really don't know.' I began thinking: I have children in elementaray school. The second week, the profesor ask: 'What is money?' The class was silent - that hadn't been in the assigned reading. But to my dad, it was obvious that you have to sand as deep as the scratch is to get it out. I was excited to learn that, because I had been wondering about it. I remember when I was a youth I read a scholarly article in Scientific American reporting on research that showed that to sand out a scratch, you had to sand as deep as the scratch. I have moved from such questions to working on what should I do? What should I be? I don't wonder if everything I see and hear is an illusion. I am not asking the fundamental questions: Whay am I here? Where did I come from? I already have answers to those questions. This book is a fun read with jokes that illustrate the points.
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