The Monty Python Philosophy Soccer Match: The Ancient Greeks Versus the Germans

Today, we’re revis­it­ing a clas­sic Mon­ty Python skit. The scene is the 1972 Munich Olympics. The event is a football/soccer match, pit­ting Ger­man philoso­phers against Greek philoso­phers. On the one side, the Ger­mans — Hegel, Niet­zsche, Kant, Marx and, um, Franz Beck­en­bauer. On the oth­er side, Archimedes, Socrates, Pla­to and the rest of the gang. … Con­tin­ue read­ing The Mon­ty Python Phi­los­o­phy Soc­cer Match: The Ancient Greeks Ver­sus the Ger­mans