Saturday, September 19, 2009

[philosophers] who's the odd one out and why


Name them and say who would not be "of the club", had there been a club. Say why.

7 comments:

  1. Friedrich Nietzsche
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
    John-Paul Sartre
    Karl Marx

    Odd one out is Sartre as he was French and the others German and apart from the English no-one hates the French more than the Germans.

    Only kidding, I know of them and the sort of base of their philosphies, but why 3 are the same and one not, beats me.

    The only thing I do know is

    Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
    Who was very rarely stable.
    Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
    Who could think you under the table.
    David Hume could out-consume
    Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel,
    And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
    Who was just as schloshed 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,
    On 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,
    Hobbes was fond of his dram,
    And Rene 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!

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  2. At a wild guess, Nietzsche never had an affair or got married or had kids, being a completely insufferable [rude word].

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  3. Think of their clubbability more.

    In that case simples, Marx's parents were Jews

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  4. Ok - think of what they thought of each other's philosophy and start with Hegel in relation to the others [he's not the one].

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  5. PC - Oh thank you! I have been looking for the words of that song for AGES!

    As to James's question - I haven't a clue; I'm not sure if by 'clubbability' you mean how social they were - or much I would like to take a club and..... in which case they are all the same!!

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  6. OK, folks - the idea was that everyone but Nietzsche was of a similar view in many respects to Hegel. Nietzsche, on the other hand, was a severe critic of Hegel.

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