Philosophers à la Monty Python

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1. Which philosopher, whom Monty Python stated was 'a real pissant who was very rarely stable', published his major work "Critique of Pure Reason" in 1781? René Descartes David Hume Immanuel Kant George Berkely

2. According to Monty Python, this author of "Being and Time" was a 'boozy beggar who could think you under the table'. Who was he? Martin Heidegger Friedrich Nietzsche Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Ludwig Wittgenstein

3. To which philosopher did Monty Python's malapropism 'I drink, therefore I am' refer? Gottfried Leibniz Thomas Hobbes René Descartes John Calvin

4. In referring to a philosopher who, 'of his own free will, after half a pint of shandy was particularily ill', the Monty Python troupe alluded to his work "On Liberty". Who was this philosopher? Jean-Jacques Rousseau John Stuart Mill Arthur Schopenhauer Jeremy Bentham

5. Monty Python's "Bruces' Philosophers Song" also touched on a few ancient Greek philosophers. Which of these did they NOT mention? Plato (half a crate of whiskey every day) Socrates (permanently pissed) Aristotle (a bugger for the bottle) Pythagoras (fond of his Dram)

6. In Monty Python's fictional University of Woolloomooloo Philosophy Department, newcomer Michael Baldwin (new Bruce) was going to be teaching 'political science, Machiavelli, Bentham, Locke, Hobbes, Sutcliffe, Bradman, Lindwall, Miller, Hassett, and Benaud.' What did the Bruces call all of these philosophers? Cricketers Poofters Footballers Pommeys

7. In Monty Python's "Philosophers' Football Match" sketch, the opposing teams were comprised of philosophers from ancient Greece and 'modern' Germany. Which Chinese philosopher, known for his "Analects", acted as the referee? Answer: (One Word)

8. The commentator for the "Philosophers' Football Match" described the tactics of the German manager as he 'has decided on all-out attack and indeed he must, with only two minutes of the match to go.' Who did Monty Python choose as the German manager, who in real life attacked the practices of the Catholic church through his "95 Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences"? Answer: (First and Last Name, or just last name)

9. The "Philosophers' Football Match" remained goalless until the last minute, when the minds behind Monty Python had the Greek player Archimedes finally come to some internal conclusion, crying "Eureka!" and effecting (with Socrates and Herakleitos) the winning goal. This was a reference to Archimedes' discovery of the philosophical concept of 'arche' (what underlies all of reality). True False

10. In their 1983 film "The Meaning of Life", Monty Python had a couple briefly mention a philosopher (over dinner) who in real life went on record with an answer to the question, "What is the meaning of life?" Who was this philosopher, who answered that question by stating: "One's life reflects one's will, and the will is an aimless, irrational, and painful drive. Salvation, deliverance, and escape from suffering are in aesthetic contemplation, sympathy for others, and asceticism."? Jean-Paul Sartre Søren Kierkegaard Arthur Schopenhauer Friedrich Nietzsche