Weight: 350 grams Dimensions: 290 x 157 x 31 mm
In this book, I have been waiting for. Although I have ordered for the library, but unfortunately has the same borrowed someone. No wonder! It's worth it. They also must be able to treat also.
Everyone knows the Simpsons, no doubt. But you can philosophize with or on the Simpsons? You can! The Simpsons have been around for 20 years. During this time in the show were already all human problems, sometimes shown potential. "To Marge's kitchen table," a fitting text on the spine, "and in the streets of Springfield, the basic questions of humanity openly to light.
And who is responsible for the basic questions of humanity? There were and still are, the philosophers happened. What if in a U.S. university, in which the teaching and work environment to be distinguished clearly from the local universities must, 11 witty philosophers get together in the water cooler and talk about the TV series from the previous day, showing the book. Some were already involved in being field-book, So now the Simpsons.
I was always clear that the series has the potential to tell us life. I remember one episode (When I still had a TV). Homer goes on the highway. On his car he pulls a trailer that is fully loaded with all sorts of stuff. Suddenly dissolves the trailer - it was probably locked correctly. This caused a terrible pile-up on the highway. And what makes Homer? He reaches for the mirror in which he may consider the consequences of his actions, this twisted a few degrees and looks - quite surreal - a deer peacefully grazing in a paradisiacal meadow landscape. He is so off the symbols of the reality around us everyday refuse.
One of the chapter is also devoted to Homer Simpson. Posted It was the Assitenzprofessor of Philosophy Raja Halwani, indicating that was his greatest achievement, the discovery of another meal between breakfast and brunch. Such comparative armed with humor Halwani Homer with the ethics of Aristotle to approach to the question whether Homer is a "good" or a "bad" person. The types of character of Aristotle come to me - from my course "Personality Development" very familiar. The final verdict on Homer falls in surprisingly mild, even though Homer has a lot of bad qualities and dark passions. His "intoxicating lust for life" is opposed by the many large and small injuries Homer imposed on others.
No, the lyrics are not easy to read. They require more attention than the look of a cartoon series on TV. But in their analysis of field they are - in conjunction with the recognition effect - brilliant. Many of the essential philosopher to speak. Always related to one of the characters of the Simpsons series: Bart and Nietzsche, The Simpsons family, and Kant, Karl Marx and etc. In addition many sprinklings of other philosophers. It also has a more colorful and better introductory course in philosophy probably be little.
contribution to the future of humanity: makes philosophy fun even nerds. More it!
Wiiliam Irwin and others (eds.): The Simpsons and Philosophy. Be smarter with the most famous TV family in the world. 2008th 6. Edition. Tropics: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-932170-97-3
