Klein, Daniel M.
Summary: Describes how the author journeyed to Greece with a suitcase full of philosophy books in order to learn how to achieve a fulfilling old age, explaining how he came to regard old age as a life stage filled with simple and heady pleasures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2012
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Summary: Discusses the writings of the philosophers that have inspired the author, from Epicurus to Emerson, the Bible, and Beckett.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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Summary: Describes how the author journeyed to Greece with a suitcase full of philosophy books in order to learn how to achieve a fulfilling old age, explaining how he came to regard old age as a life stage filled with simple and heady pleasures.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 187 KLECathcart, Thomas
Summary: The great philosopher Aristotle once said "Humor is the only test of gravity, for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious." Taking this tenet to task, Cathart and Klein tackle all the major philosophical perspectives--ancient and postmodern alike--and make them universally accessible through hilarious jokes that cut straight to the core of the principle. Hobbes, for instance,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 102 CATCathcart, Thomas
Summary: Uses jokes, cartoons, and philosophy to expose what politicians really mean, analyzing quotations from everyone from Condoleezza Rice to Al Sharpton.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Image 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 401.41 CATCathcart, Thomas
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 129 CATCathcart, Thomas
Summary: The great philosopher Aristotle once said "Humor is the only test of gravity, for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious." Taking this tenet to task, Cathart and Klein tackle all the major philosophical perspectives--ancient and postmodern alike--and make them universally accessible through hilarious jokes that cut straight to the core of the principle. Hobbes, for instance,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Image 2006