PHILOSOPHICAL PLAYS is a new open-access journal/archive for modern philosophy plays & dialogues on happiness, satisfaction, love, life, death, afterlife, soul, religion, God, ethics, and the human condition. Elaborate footnotes/ comments and full bibliographical references. ISSN 1654-6296 (print edition), ISSN 1654-6318 (online edition).

ALL PLAYS/DIALOGUES are available at NO COST at the Philosophical Plays website, both in an electronic print edition (full PDF, FREE download, 6" x 9", classic typography for print), as well as in a FREE-ACCESS online edition (typography for on-screen reading, nice navigation, printer- friendly views, W3C-validated web pages, Mac/Windows & Explorer/ Firefox/Opera/ Safari compatible).

THE FIRST ISSUE (Vol. 1, No. 1, January 2008) features the philosophical play "Katherine's Questionable Quest for Love and Happiness" by Bo C. Klintberg.

CATEGORY: Philosophy play; historical fiction; comedy; social criticism.



STORYLINE: Katherine, a slightly neurotic American lawyer, has tried very hard to find personal happiness in the form of friends and lovers. But she has not succeeded, and is therefore very unhappy. So she travels to London, hoping that Christianus — a well-known satisfactionist — may be able to help her.

SCENE I. The Floridian Liti-Gator - SCENE II. On Battles, Wars, and Meaning - SCENE III. Maximum Happiness, Minimum Unhappiness - SCENE IV. Katherine’s Real Problem - SCENE V. The Mustachio Man - SCENE VI. Death Is Nothing Like a Toothache - SCENE VII. Not In the Hands of the Scientists - SCENE VIII. Important and Unimportant Knowledge - SCENE IX. Physicians Can’t Stop Death - SCENE X. Are Foetuses Potential Persons? - SCENE XI. The Body-Bomb - SCENE XII. The Cartesian Theatre - SCENE XIII. Radha’s Microscope - SCENE XIV. Ontology Drives Explanation - SCENE XV. Another Look at Radha - SCENE XVI. Confessions of a Satisfactionist .

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