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''Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar – Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes'' is a book that explains basic philosophical concepts through classic jokes. Thomas Wilson Cathcart and Daniel Martin Klein, graduates of Harvard in philosophy, collaborated on the book. The book became a bestseller soon after publication. It has been translated into 25 languages and appeared on bestseller lists in the United States, France, and Israel. ''Plato and a Platypus'' examines the classic categories of philosophy, with concepts explained or illustrated by jokes. The concept behind the book in the Introduction: “The construction and payoff of jokes and the construction and payoff of philosophical concepts are made out of the same stuff. They tease the mind in the same ways…philosophy and jokes proceed from the same impulse: to confound our sense of the way things are, to flip our worlds upside down, and to ferret out hidden, often uncomfortable, truths about life. What the philosopher calls an insight, the gagster calls a zinger.〔Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar, p.2〕" ==Quote from the book== "A guy comes home from a business trip and finds his wife in bed, a nervous look on her face. He opens the closet to hang up his coat, and finds his best friend standing there, naked. Stunned, he says, "Lenny, what are you doing here?" Lenny shrugs and says, "Everybody's got to be someplace." In this gag, Lenny is giving a Hegelian answer to an existential question. The question is about the existential circumstances in the here-and-now, but the answer is from a grand, universal vantage point, what the latter-day Hegelian Bette Midler called “seeing the world from a distance." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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