BOOKS - Everything I Know I Learned from TV
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Everything I Know I Learned from TV
Author: Mark Rowlands
Year: 2010
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 1.3 MB
Language: English
Year: 2010
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 1.3 MB
Language: English
Everything I Know I Learned From TV uses characters we all know and love and their TV worlds to explain the great questions of philosophy The only qualifications you need to join in are ownership of a sofa a remote control a sense of humour and an enquiring mind The philosophy discussed is very much life philosophy answering the questions we all want to know How do you define what is a good life to lead The Simpsons disagree over the right way to live with Nietzsche and Diogenes on hand to take sides What is real happiness Aristotle fights Descartes for the heart and mind of Sex and the Citys Carrie Bradshaw Can a good person do a bad thing Kant and Socrates pay a call on Tony Soprano and his latterday Mob to talk moral philosophy Where does love end and friendship begin Rachel and Ross ask Plato about the philosophy of emotions and wonder if theyre just good friends Is the pursuit of selfknowledge a good thing Socrates helps Niles and Frasier Crane and their dad deal with the relative merit of the examined and the unexamined life And much more
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