Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes

The reading was done in an energetic way, as it should be for a book based on jokes. The book covers history, famous thinkers, theology, many of the 'ism's like feminism and language issues. A few of the jokes I replayed then told my co-workers that day or the next. Highly recommend for fun learning.

And I disagree that it disrespects faith/religion. There are jokes about a variety of beliefs including non-belief and dis-belief. They are not extreme or disrespectful, at least not compared to common bar jokes.

50/50. I liked the intro to philosophy and concepts but I just felt like the book was written by a bunch of college frat boys who associate everything with some kind of sexual reference as if it was the only thing people could relate to.

Change their jokes!

Yes.

If they were going to delve deeper into the content, sure. If not, no.

The idea of explaining philosophy through jokes is an interesting one, but what it means in practice is that the authors tell a joke and then just explain it to death. Over and over again. There is no particular depth to these explanations.

The narrator does a lot of schlocky accents. I mean, it's just awful.

do not like this narrator. Poor timing spoils the humor.

You will find that the reader's comedic timing may not be perfect; the philosophical concepts snipped in brevity and perhaps a bit incomplete.. You may find some of the jokes target theism and other beliefs that if you hold too closely or restrict your views too narrowly then offense may follow. You may also find some of the jokes a bit lame regardless of target.. but that's comedy. In the end, if you are like me, you will find it entertaining, somewhat thought provoking and best served in rations of a chapter or so at a time. All in all though its a worthwhile experience unless you are callused, closed off or easily offended in which case it may be preferable to stick with the tepid waters of preacher humor for your comedy and the pablum of Strobel for your philosophy. For all others, its a fun ride.

I am thoroughly unimpressed. This was neither good humor nor a good explanation of philosophical ideas.

Although I expected an atheistic viewpoint from a work on philosophy, I was not ready for the crude blasphemy of some of these "jokes". I wasn't able to listen to the book all the way through because of this. But I really didn't want to anyway. It was pretty boring.

If I were to teach a course on philosophy, I would certainly use humor. But I hope I'd do a better job of it than this book did.

Yes I would listen to Plato and a Platypus walk into a bar again and again as the humor moves at such a fast pace that on many occaisions the message gets lost in the immediacy of the puchline.
I find that Jewish humor being so fast, requires careful listening to get the real message of Plato's reasoning.
Being a reader rather than a listener I found it difficult to listen for more than a few minutes at a time . then I would stop it and review what i had heard and more importantly what i had gained from the expwerience.

I didn't have a favourite .

No

This is my first Audible encounter and I am sure I will be having more on a regular basis.
It's just that I find it an entirely different medium.
Thank you.
John Arthur daley

I've read this book before and it's been one of my favorites for a while now. Unfortunately, the audiobook didn't quite meet the high standard set by the book itself. Although the content was all there, I found it extremely hard to get past the fact that the narrator's voice is annoying as hell.

Initially the humor fit the philosophy, eventually the humor did not fit the philosophy, nor was it humorous.