Everything I Ever Needed to Know I Learned on Television

Tonight I chanced upon Monty Python's "Philosophers' Football Match, in which Greek philosophers take on German philosophers." Here is part of the play-by-play: Archimedes out to Socrates, Socrates back to Archimedes, Archimedes out to Heraclitus, he beats Hegel. Heraclitus a little flick, here he comes on the far post, Socrates is there, Socrates heads it in! Socrates has scored! The Greeks are going mad, the Greeks are going mad. Socrates scores, got a beautiful cross from Archimedes. The Germans are disputing it. Hegel is arguing that the 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. (See www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/arts/story.html?id=3c023345-7c6c-4fd6-bf48-c5975acc0dff. Also, transcripts of the entire play-by-play and the actual video can be found on the Internet with a Google search. FYI - - KUED, the University of Utah's television station, has been airing installments of Monty Python's Personal Best. Installments 5 and 6 will air on Wednesday, March 15. The Philosopher's Football Match was from the Eric Idle instalment.) NOTE: This entry reflects experiences from February 22, 2006, but was entered on March 13 and 14, 2006)