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Play 1: Katherine’s Questionable Quest
for Love and Happiness

A. Scenes

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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B. Description

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.

TOPICS: In the course of the play, Katherine and Christianus converse about many philosophical issues: the modern American military presence in Iraq; the meaning of life; the ethics of abortion; assessing WHO death statistics; the potential personhood of foetuses; ancient Egyptian moustaches and beards; defining criteria for progress in human society; objectivity and subjectivity; Chicago futures trading developments; the virtues of cryonics (deep-freezing humans) technology; a U.S. Supreme Court case; important and unimportant knowledge; and spiritualist dualism (with soul-body theories and afterlife) vs. scientific materialism (with mind-brain identity theories and nothingness).

NOTES: This work features elaborate footnotes and comments (including full bibliographical references) by the author, to enhance the reader's experience of the play and its philosophizing characters.

C. Versions of This Play (Print Edition)

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PRINT VERSION: The play Katherine’s Questionable Quest for Love and Happiness is published in Philosophical Plays, Vol. 1, No. 1 (January 2008).

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ONLINE VERSIONS: The play Katherine’s Questionable Quest fpr Love and Happiness is available in the following online versions:

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Play 1: Katherine’s Questionable Quest for Love and Happiness

A. Scenes

B. Description

C. Versions of This Play (Print Edition)

D. Versions of This Play (Online Edition)

Play 1: Katherine’s Questionable Quest
for Love and Happiness