Philosophers with Balls

by Tom Palmer on May 28, 2007 · 6 comments

in Personal Musings

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Andrew Sullivan mentioned it, but I found a much better version on Google video: the Monty Python football matchup between the German philosophers and the Greek philosophers.

Part I

Part II

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Cynical non-German 05.30.07 at 3:04 pm

Funny, that, the beginning and the end of civilization.

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Ryan The Sea Lion 05.30.07 at 9:32 pm

I found it somewhat bizarre that the good men of Monty Python put an “I.” in front of Kant (who would the other “Kant” philosopher be?) yet left Schlegel unspecified (August or Karl?). Anyways, as a good student of both philosophy and Monty Python I’ve seen the skit before, and found it quite humorous. My only complaint was that Hegel was captain of the krauts.

“the end of civilization”? Sounds quite like something a GERMAN philosopher would say!

Long live Heraclitus, Socrates, Aristotle, Epicurus, Kant, Schopenhauer, Jaspers, Wittgenstein, and Heidegger… and Plato for good measure! I wasn’t aware that Archimedes was a philosopher… and aren’t some of those “Greeks” not Greek at all?

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Tom G. Palmer 05.30.07 at 10:23 pm

Good points, Ryan. Archimedes was a lover of wisdom, hence….a philosopher. (What we call science used to be called natural philosophy, after all.)

Cheers,
Tom

P.S. Has civilization ended?

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Michael Cust 05.30.07 at 11:46 pm

So good!

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John Thrasher 06.10.07 at 12:11 pm

Why would Wittgenstein be playing for the Germans? He was Austrian.

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Tom G. Palmer 06.10.07 at 5:47 pm

Kant was Prussian. But they both wrote in German.

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