

Does Santa Exist?
A Philosophical Investigation
Author: Eric Kaplan
Narrator: Sean Runnette
Unabridged: 5 hr 43 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 10/16/2014
Categories: Nonfiction, Humor, Philosophy, History & Surveys
Synopsis
Even after we outgrow the jolly fellow, the essential paradox persists: There are some things we dearly believe in that are not universally acknowledged as real. In Does Santa Exist?, Kaplan shows how philosophy giants Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein strove to smooth over this uncomfortable meeting of the real and unreal—and failed. From there he turns to mysticism's attempts to resolve such paradoxes. Finally, he alights on comedy as the ultimate resolution of the fundamental paradoxes of life.
Kaplan delves deeper into what this means, from how our physical brains work to his own personal confrontations with life's biggest questions: If we're all going to die, what's the point of anything? What is a perfect moment? What can you say about God? Or Santa?