Monty Python: The Philosophers’ Football Match
As the World Cup gets underway here in the Americas, here’s a look back at a football battle for the ages: Germany vs. Greece in The Philosophers’ Football Match. Germany’s lineup included Nietzsche , Kant, Hegel, Wittgenstein, and Marx while the likes of Plato, Socrates, Sophocles, and Archimedes took the field for Greece.
Hegel is arguing that reality is merely an a priori adjunct of non-naturalistic ethics, Kant — via the categorical imperative — is holding that ontologically, it exists only in the imagination, and Marx is claiming it was offside.
(thx, meg)
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Hard laughs on this! Probably only a select few would also find it so funny, so thank you Jason for sharing!
Happiness is getting to show this to my wife who had never seen it before! 😁
Also had to watch the Silly Party sketch, based on articles about why Lord Buckethead (sorry, Binface) was next to Andy Burnham when the election results were read. :)
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