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    You Kant Make It Up!: Strange Ideas from History's Great Philosophers
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    You Kant Make It Up!: Strange Ideas from History's Great Philosophers

    By Gary Hayden

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    Drawing on the writings of the great philosophers, You Kant Make it Up sends the reader on thrilling, non-stop tour of their most outrageous and counter-intuitive conclusions. Augustine said that babies deserve to go to hell. Berkeley asserted that matter doesn’t exist. Bentham would have argued that Dan Brown is better than Shakespeare. All these statements stem from philosophy’s greatest minds. What were they thinking? Overflowing with compelling arguments for the downright strange many of which are hugely influential today popular philosopher Gary Hayden shows that just because something is odd, doesn’t mean that someone hasn’t argued for it. Spanning ethics, logic, politics, sex and religion, this unconventional introduction to philosophy will challenge your assumptions, expand your horizons, infuriate, entertain and amuse you. Gary Hayden is a journalist and popular philosopher. He has a master’s degree in philosophy and has written for The Times Educational Supplement. He is the author of This Book Does Not Exist: Adventures in the Paradoxical.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOneworld Publications
    Release dateSep 1, 2011
    ISBN9781851688708
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    You Kant Make It Up!: Strange Ideas from History's Great Philosophers
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    Gary Hayden

    Gary Hayden is a journalist and popular philosopher. He has a master's degree in philosophy and has written for The Times Educational Supplement, Scotsman, Church Times, and a selection of magazines. He is the author of This Book Does Not Exist: Adventures in the Paradoxical. He lives in the UK.

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      This is another book vaguely like the books of philosophy puzzles I was reading, with a very similar structure and tone. It's very simple to understand; it often didn't go beyond my GCSE and A Level Religious Studies classes, and none of it went beyond what I studied in my first year, when I took the first year of a philosophy degree.

      On the one hand, it's frustratingly simple and repetitive for someone who knows a good bit about philosophy already, but on the other hand, that would recommend it to beginners. It's well laid out, too; you can skip through it for the stuff you're interested in, letting one idea lead onto another. There's a touch of humour in the whole treatment of it, which might help.