Plato and a platypus walk into a bar--
understanding philosophy through jokes
by Thomas Cathcart · first published 2008
100% recommend
This New York Times bestseller is the hilarious philosophy course everyone wishes they'd had in schoolOutrageously 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 dedu
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…The Millionaire Mind by Dr. Thomas Stanley + The Intelligent Investor by Ben Graham + The Essays of Warren Buffet by Lawrence Cunningham + Buffet by Roger Lowenstein + The Knack by Norm Brodsky + Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar by Thomas Cathcart, Daniel Klein + The Return of the Great Depression by Vox Day + Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman + Road to Serfdom by Hayek + Iacocca:An Autobiography by Lee Iacocca
on “If you could give a book to your younger self, what would it be?” ↗Nigel Warburton's A Little History of Philosophy. Cathcart and Klein's Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar. Both are easy-going and fit the description of an overview. Further reading can be segued to Oxford University Press A Very Short Introduction Series. Concise but in-depth reads written by modern philosophers.
on “Ask HN: How do I get started in philosophy” ↗