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  • Paperback: 248 pages
  • Publisher: Oneworld Publications (1 Sep 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1851686479
  • ISBN-13: 978-1851686476
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
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With its wonderful varied selection of topics, plus Cave's admirable lightness of touch, this is one of the most entertaining and thought provoking books I've come across in years. So stop messing around with trivia like Sudoku and give your brain a real treat by buying this book. --Focus Magazine

This is a chirpy introduction to philosophy through thought-experiments and paradoxes. --The Guardian

The book continues to be unputdownable. --Philosophy Now


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5.0 out of 5 stars Thinking with FUN! , 16 Jan 2008
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This is a brilliant read! wonderfully written by the author with great style and humour. This should interest everyone - as it covers a wide range of topics, from ethics to religion to science to metaphysics, but in an entertaining way (even with the odd cartoon).
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, 17 Jan 2008
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If you're inquisitive at all about your environment or why you're here or does a god exist then this book is a must. Written in a much simpler language than many of its counterparts it is a joy to read and should not be intimidating for even a new thinker.
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77 of 82 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Flossy Fun And Finking, 29 Sep 2007
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Really enjoyed this book. A rare mixture of being genuinely thought provoking and genuinely funny. I found myself mulling over the philsophical ideas and paradoxes long after I'd put the book down.

Especially liked Zeno's tortoise finally coming out of his shell. ;-)

But its more than just a humourous look at ancient philsosphical paradoxes, as it relates many of the ideas to current arguements in politics, ethics, religion and sex.


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