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Jumpers is a 1972 play by Tom Stoppard. It explores and satirises the field of academic philosophy, likening it to a highly skillful competitive gymnastics display. Jumpers raises questions such as "What do we know?" and "Where do values come from?" It is set in an alternate reality where some British astronauts have landed on the moon and "Radical Liberals" (read logical positivists) have taken over the British government (the play seems to suggest that logical postivists would be immoral ... full article at wikipedia

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