Thursday, May 04, 2006

Philosophical Action Figures

Why didn't I think of this? The wisdom of this idea (in the Logos sense of the term as developed by Heraclitus rather than in the Hegelian dialectic of reason/irrationality) is so apparent.

Get 'em right here.

I'm particularly fond of Awful Augustine.

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  1. These are great!
    Thanks for unleashing them upon us. The HPS dept. at Notre Dame is even now designing the companion set for William Whewell, J. S. Mill, Darwin, Herbert Spencer, Lord Rutherford, Kelvin, Davy Faraday, and Bob Sieger.

    All with special vehicles.
    And Destro.
    Or Serpentor, who will have the DNA of all these great thinkers embedded within him. But will probably wet the bed.

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  2. Immmanuel Kant was a real piss ant
    Who was very rarely stable
    Heidegger, Heidegger
    Was a boozy beggar
    Who'd drink you under the table
    David Hume could out consume
    Schopenhauer and Hegel
    And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
    Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel

    Ohhhh... there's nothin' Nietzche couldn't teach ya
    About the raisin' of the wrist
    And Socrates himself was permanently pissed

    John Stuart Mill, of his own free will
    Thought Shanty was particularly ill
    Plato, they say, could stick it away
    half a crate a whiskey, everyday
    Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle
    And Hobbes was fond of his dram
    Rene Descartes was a drunken fart
    "I drink therefore I am"
    -- Monty Python, "The Philosopher's Drinking Song"

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