4.5
This Book Needs No Title A Budget of Living Paradoxes
This Book Needs No Title brings the delight and fascination with self-reference and paradox that distinguish Raymond Smullyan's popular books on logic to bear on philosophical and spiritual themes. Progressing organically from brief anecdotes, paradoxes, jokes, and epigrams to dialogues, essays, and finally the marvelous novella-length parable, "Planet Without Laughter", Smullyan uses reason to illuminate its own limits in playfully serious treatments of subjects such as egoism, pessimism, anxiety, mysticism, free will and determinism, dualism, Zen, spontaneity, and humor. No thinker has ever banished grimness more fully from his philosophy than Smullyan, nor made profundity more cheerfully contagious, as the uninhibited pleasure in inquiry in these pages joyfully testifies.
Games & ActivitiesPuzzlesHumorFormEssaysPhilosophy
RELEASED2023
PUBLISHERWhat Is the Name of This Press
LENGTH186
LANGUAGEEN
Raymond Merrill Smullyan was an American mathematician, magician, concert pianist, logician, Taoist, and philosopher. Born in Far Rockaway, New York, his first career was stage magic. He earned a BSc from the University of Chicago in 1955 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1959. He is one of many logicians to have studied with Alonzo Church. **Source**: [Ramon Smullyan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Smullyan) on Wikipedia.
4.5
This Book Needs No Title A Budget of Living Paradoxes
This Book Needs No Title brings the delight and fascination with self-reference and paradox that distinguish Raymond Smullyan's popular books on logic to bear on philosophical and spiritual themes. Progressing organically from brief anecdotes, paradoxes, jokes, and epigrams to dialogues, essays, and finally the marvelous novella-length parable, "Planet Without Laughter", Smullyan uses reason to illuminate its own limits in playfully serious treatments of subjects such as egoism, pessimism, anxiety, mysticism, free will and determinism, dualism, Zen, spontaneity, and humor. No thinker has ever banished grimness more fully from his philosophy than Smullyan, nor made profundity more cheerfully contagious, as the uninhibited pleasure in inquiry in these pages joyfully testifies.
Games & ActivitiesPuzzlesHumorFormEssaysPhilosophyEthics & Moral PhilosophyLogic
RELEASED2023
PUBLISHERWhat Is the Name of This Press
LENGTH186
LANGUAGEEN
Raymond Merrill Smullyan was an American mathematician, magician, concert pianist, logician, Taoist, and philosopher. Born in Far Rockaway, New York, his first career was stage magic. He earned a BSc from the University of Chicago in 1955 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1959. He is one of many logicians to have studied with Alonzo Church. **Source**: [Ramon Smullyan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Smullyan) on Wikipedia.
