Philosophy
When things become boring [no nasty mail; no severe weather] one can always turn to the British for a chuckle and such it is with Monty Python.
The players:
Germans:
Beckenbauer
Hegel
Heidegger
Leibniz
Jaspers
Kant
Nietzsche
Schelling
Schlegel
Schopenhauer
Wittgenstein
Greeks:
Archimedes
Aristoteles
Demokrit
Empedokles von Acraga
Epikte
Epikur
Heraklit
Plato
Plotin
Sokrates
Sophokles
Special appearences:
Confucius
Karl Marx
- Rip Peter Bergman
My Fellow Comedists, This week, we lost another great comic mind. Peter Bergman has gone up to comedy heaven to take his place next to the Cosmic Comic. Founding member of Firesign Theatre, Bergman was a master of late 60s intellectual surrealist...
- And Now For Something...
My Fellow Comedists, This week is the 40th anniversary of Monty Python. What can you really say? Best Python sketch ever? My entry, cliche as it is: Faves? Live, love, and laugh, Irreverend Steve...
- Christopher Hitchens - Philosophy And Booze
If you're familiar with the late Christopher Hitchens, you probably know that besides being a prolific writer, social commentator, public intellectual, fierce debater and a master rhetorician, the man loved his booze and his smokes. In the following...
- The Story Of Maths - The Language Of The Universe
Nature and its laws seem to be governed by patterns which can be described mathematically, and human beings have been hard at work trying to make sense of such patterns for a very long time. In this first episode of the documentary series The Story of...
- "in 90 Minutes"...introduction To Some Philosophy Greats
Decent introduction to fourteen philosophers by Paul Strathern. Paul Strathern [Wikipedia]... Paul Strathern (born 1940) is a British writer and academic. He was born in London, and studied at Trinity College, Dublin, after which he served in the Merchant...
Philosophy
Philosophers' World Cup--some humor
When things become boring [no nasty mail; no severe weather] one can always turn to the British for a chuckle and such it is with Monty Python.
Monty Python
Philosophers' World Cup
The players:
Germans:
Beckenbauer
Hegel
Heidegger
Leibniz
Jaspers
Kant
Nietzsche
Schelling
Schlegel
Schopenhauer
Wittgenstein
Greeks:
Archimedes
Aristoteles
Demokrit
Empedokles von Acraga
Epikte
Epikur
Heraklit
Plato
Plotin
Sokrates
Sophokles
Special appearences:
Confucius
Karl Marx
- Rip Peter Bergman
My Fellow Comedists, This week, we lost another great comic mind. Peter Bergman has gone up to comedy heaven to take his place next to the Cosmic Comic. Founding member of Firesign Theatre, Bergman was a master of late 60s intellectual surrealist...
- And Now For Something...
My Fellow Comedists, This week is the 40th anniversary of Monty Python. What can you really say? Best Python sketch ever? My entry, cliche as it is: Faves? Live, love, and laugh, Irreverend Steve...
- Christopher Hitchens - Philosophy And Booze
If you're familiar with the late Christopher Hitchens, you probably know that besides being a prolific writer, social commentator, public intellectual, fierce debater and a master rhetorician, the man loved his booze and his smokes. In the following...
- The Story Of Maths - The Language Of The Universe
Nature and its laws seem to be governed by patterns which can be described mathematically, and human beings have been hard at work trying to make sense of such patterns for a very long time. In this first episode of the documentary series The Story of...
- "in 90 Minutes"...introduction To Some Philosophy Greats
Decent introduction to fourteen philosophers by Paul Strathern. Paul Strathern [Wikipedia]... Paul Strathern (born 1940) is a British writer and academic. He was born in London, and studied at Trinity College, Dublin, after which he served in the Merchant...