![]() ![]() ![]() Part of the fun of the book is realizing just how much philosophy contributes to jokes we’ve already heard, but also makes a subtler point about how both philosophy and jokes attack the meaning of what it is to be human. The philosophical concepts are neatly and lightly juxtaposed with jokes that successfully illustrate them. ![]() The philosophy of the book is easily understood in the small chunks, and in turn, it brings a bit of gravitas to a collection of delectable but completely cheesy jokes. Similarly, in Plato and a Platypus Walk Into A Bar, some kind of dorky jokes and some shallowly explicated philosophy emerge to become a rather charming and engaging collection that feels a bit like a warm fuzzy blanket for nerds, or anyone else who needs an excuse to laugh at relatively tame jokes. For example, if arms, kidneys, fingernails, and even brains do not constitute a person without each other, what is the element that definitively unites them as human being. It is used to discuss, among other things, a mysterious process that make a collection of meaningless parts join together to become a being we recognize. There’s a concept in Metaphysics called “emergence”. ![]()
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