Philosophy Football

We take you back to 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. Confucius is the referee and Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine (sporting haloes) serve as linesmen. The German manager is Martin Luther. As play begins, the philosophers