Kant Stop
The journal article I just finished reading included a reference to Immanuel Kant, the great 18th century philosopher. The reference cited Kant's observation that the only way to make a rational and moral world is to behave as though it were one, no matter what the evidence to the contrary.
While this statement is no doubt worthy of serious and prolonged consideration -- and, as you know, I adore inflicting serious and prolonged consideration on innocent and unsuspecting bloggers -- this was the first thing I thought of ....
posted by ink @ 2:40 PM
Dip your quill - (7)
7 Comments:
Darn...nothing there that I can see when I click on "this." Bummer...
Yup. That's what I think of whenever I hear ANY philosopher's name mentioned.
Susan, it's Monty Python's Philosophy Song.
Susan - Sorry 'bout that. Here are the lyrics, just for you ...
Philosopher's Song:
Immanuel Kant was a real piss-ant who was very rarely stable.
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table. ..
David Hume could out-consume Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as sloshed as Schlegel.
There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach 'ya 'bout the raising of the wrist.
Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed.
John Stuart Mill, of his own free will, after half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.
Plato, they say, could stick it away, half a crate of whiskey every day!
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,
And Hobbes was fond of his Dram.
And René Descartes was a drunken fart:
"I drink, therefore I am."
Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed.
Dickey and Ink: Thanks for the info---- and HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
I would pay a pretty penny to get in your head to determine how you made that cerebral analogy and connection. It's definitely an interesting drinking song, but I couldn't imagine anyone singing that while drunk.
Epi - There's many a person who would pay a pretty penny to get into my head. :)
I agree with you about the challenge of singing this while drunk, though. I mean,"Just as sloshed as Schlegel?" The mind positively reels!
I thought of that song too when I read Kant's name. It's such a catchy tune.
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