![]() The central premise of the book is that philosophy and jokes both “tease the mind in similar ways”. I just joined the Mormon Church, and I had to quit drinking.Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar (henceforth shortened to PPWB) is a delightful little book that generates the “a-ha!” moment of understanding philosophical concepts through jokes. When he comes to the bar for his second round, the bartender says, “Please accept my condolences, pal.” The Irishman says, “Oh, no, everyone’s fine. The other regulars notice, and a silence falls over the bar. One day he comes in and orders two pints. ![]() Each of these is for one of my brothers and the third is for me.” The bartender is touched, and says, “What a great custom!” The Irishman becomes a regular in the bar and always orders the same way. When we all went our separate ways, we promised each other that we’d all drink this way in memory of the days when we drank together. The bartender says, “You know, they’d be less likely to go flat if you bought them one at a time.” The man says, “Yeah, I know, but I have two brothers, one in the States, one in Australia. “An Irishman walks into a Dublin bar, orders three pints of Guinness, and drinks them down, taking a sip from one, then a sip from the next, until they’re gone. ![]() Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes Twenty-one! And the booming voice says, “Un-fucking-believable!” Hey,” “Alvin, take another card!” the voice commands. “Alvin, take another card.” “What?” “TAKE ANOTHER CARD!” Alvin asks for another card. “Alvin, take a card!” “What? The dealer has …” “Take a card!” Alvin tells the dealer to hit him, and gets an ace. The voice says, “Alvin, go to the blackjack table and put it all down on one hand!” Alvin hesitates but gives in. “Alvin, just take the three million dollars and go to Las Vegas.”Alvin obeys, goes to Las Vegas, and visits a casino. The voice says, “Alvin, go to Las Vegas!” Alvin asks why. The voice goes on for days saying, “Alvin, sell your business for three million dollars!” After weeks of this, he relents and sells his store. “Alvin is working in his store when he hears a booming voice from above that says, “Alvin, sell your business!” He ignores it. Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates: Using Philosophy (and Jokes!) to Explore Life, Death, the Afterlife, and Everything in Between “Tell me about the day you died,” he said to the third man. I managed to grab the balcony of the apartment below me but then some maniac came out and started pounding my fingers with a hammer! I fell, but I landed in some bushes and lived! But then this guy came out again and dropped a refrigerator on me! That did it!” Saint Peter chuckled a bit, and let him into Heaven. I was doing aerobics on the balcony of my apartment when I slipped over the edge. He then asked the next man in line about the day he died. It crushed him, but the strain of hefting the fridge gave me a heart attack and I died.” Saint Peter couldn’t deny this was an awful day and that it was a crime of passion, so he let the man enter Heaven. So I went inside, picked up the refrigerator, and pushed it out over the balcony. He fell, but landed in some bushes and survived. So I went inside, got a hammer, and started hitting his hands. So finally I went out on the balcony, where I found this man hanging over the edge by his fingertips. I searched all over the apartment and couldn’t find her lover anywhere. I was sure my wife was having an affair, so I came home early from work to catch her in the act. On the first morning of the new policy, Saint Peter said to the first man in line, “Tell me about the day you died.” The man said,“Oh, it was awful. “It got crowded in Heaven, so Saint Peter decided to accept only people who’d had a really bad day on the day they died. Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes To put it another way, take away Socrates’s rationality, and he’s no longer Socrates, but give him plastic surgery, and he’s Socrates with a nose job.” He wouldn’t even be a human being, so how could he be Socrates? On the other hand, Aristotle thought that Socrates’s property of being snub-nosed was merely accidental snub-nosed was part of how Socrates was, but it wasn’t essential to what or who he was. Without the property of rationality, Socrates simply wouldn’t be Socrates. For example, Aristotle thought that rationality was essential to being a human being and, since Socrates was a human being, Socrates’s rationality was essential to his being Socrates. The way he put it is that essential properties are those without which a thing wouldn’t be what it is, and accidental properties are those that determine how a thing is, but not what it is. “Aristotle drew a distinction between essential and accidental properties.
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