Humor seems to be the Flavor of the Month here at PEL. We've had a couple of excellent posts about comedy recently (here and here), and another one is coming very soon. But in the midst of this, we shouldn't entirely lose sight of the inherent seriousness of philosophy; with that goal, I want to call attention in this post to a neglected classic, one of the foundational texts Continue Reading …
The Christlike Subversiveness of Monty Python’s “Life of Brian”
In 1979, John Cleese and Michael Palin had a debate about Monty Python's film The Life of Brian with two defenders of the Christian faith -- one an English bishop. The question is whether the film's parody of institutionalized religion and religious hypocrisy amounts to ridiculing the personage of Jesus and Christianity in general. Continue Reading …
Greeks vs. Germans
And now for something completely different: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur5fGSBsfq8 SPOILER ALERT: The Germans are disputing it! Hegel is arguing that the reality is merely an a priori adjunct of non-analytic ethics, Kant via the categorical imperative is holding that ontologically it exists only in the imagination, and Marx is claiming that it was offside. But Continue Reading …