St. Martin's Press, 1983. — 224 p.
«Five Thousand B.C. and Other Philosophical Fantasies» by Raymond Smullyan is a collection of paradoxes, dialogues, problems, and essays exploring philosophical ideas. This fascinating book will challenge your understanding of reality, truth, morality, existence, and death.
Raymond Smullyan is a logician, mathematician, and philosopher and is the author of books including The Tao Is Silent, What Is the Name of This Book?, To Mock a Mockinbird and others.
Why Are You Truthful?Why Are You Truthful?
A Puzzle.
On Things in General.
Miscellaneous Fragments.
A Query.
Three Fantasies.
Simplicus and the Tree An Open Air Symposium.
An Epistemological Nightmare.
A Mind-Body Fantasy.
To Be or Not to Be?To Be or Not to Be?
The Zen of Life and Death.
What Is There?
Concluding Pieces.
Dream or Reality?
Enlightened Solipsism.
5000 B.C.
Afterthoughts.
Some General Comments.
What Can One Expect from Philosophy?