Do Llamas Fall in Love?: 33 Perplexing Philosophy Puzzles

Do Llamas Fall in Love?: 33 Perplexing Philosophy Puzzles

Peter Cave

Language: English

Pages: 280

ISBN: 185168767X

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


In this stunning sequel to Peter Cave's bestselling philosophy books, Can a Robot be Human? and What's Wrong with Eating People, Peter Cave once again engages the reader in a romp through the best bits of philosophical thought. With the aid of tall stories, jokes, common sense and bizarre insights, Cave tackles some of life’s most important questions and introduces the puzzles that will keep you pondering throughout the night. Illustrated with quirky cartoons throughout, Do Llamas Fall in Love leaves no stone unturned, covering a smorgasbord of topics including logic, ethics, art and politics. It will provide a perfect gift for anyone who puzzles about the world! Peter Cave is a lecturer in philosophy at The Open University and City University, London, UK. He frequently contributes to philosophy magazines and journals, lectures around the world, and has scripted and presented philosophy programmes for the BBC. With worldwide sales of over 50,000 books, he is one of the leading British philosophers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

indeed be victims; but Blackmail plc provides a valuable choice – between publicity and no publicity. True, there are monetary costs involved with the non-publicity route; but individuals are free to take the public exposure route, making no donations. Many, though, would prefer making donations, with no exposure. Let us concentrate on the morality. The two elements to the blackmailer’s offer are individually permissible. There is nothing wrong about exposing the truth. There is nothing wrong in

exaggeration, that we can make mistakes about routes and destinations – about what is worthy of desire and which values a society should prize. This may point to the ideal, very much an ideal, of a very small direct democracy in which well-informed people debate and discuss, reaching an unanimous view about the best way to run their society. There is, though, no reason to think that, even with maximum good will – with all voters intelligently seeking the best for society – there would be

Recidivism Conference, 2009, at the University of Stockholm. Useful comments have been provided by Laurence Goldstein, Michael Clark, Adrian Moore, Nick Everitt, Gerard Livingstone, Piers Benn, Sophie Bolat, Carolyn Price, Espée Liff, Richard Norman, Jerry Valberg, Andrew Harvey, Martin Holt and John Shand – and members of the Humanist Philosophers. I appreciate them all – both the individuals and the comments. For valuable aiding ways over the years, practical and intellectual, many thanks to

forgiveness 17, 36, 129 form v content 29, 31–2 Forster, E. M. 59, 242 fox-hunting 62, 146 fractions 206 frailty 64 fraud 28 freedom of expression 154–161 frog and scorpion puzzle 22 frogs are green puzzle 18 fruit or nut xiv fundamentalism 88 future concerns 43–5 gazelle, sloth and chicken puzzle 27 generalizations 117–19 generations, future 44–5 generosity 35, 104 genie puzzle 7 genocide 25, 32 Gershwin, George 108 Gilbert and George 26 Gill, Eric 26 gluttony 22, 44 goat

violinist has a right to life. He requires use of your body, but he does not have a right to that use. Millions of people suffer from malnutrition and disease that will kill them; they have a right to life. Do they therefore have a right to assistance from you – for example, by your giving to relevant charities? Someone needs a kidney transplant. Does he have a right to your kidney? After all, you only need one. We spend considerable money on luxuries: we assume a right to spend our money as we

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