Adjunct (grammar)
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As the sketch closes, the Germans dispute the call; "Hegel is arguing that the reality is merely an a priori adjunct of non-naturalistic ethics, Kant via the categorical imperative is holding that ontologically it exists only in the imagination, and Marx is claiming it was offside."
(The replay proves that, according to the offside rule, Socrates was indeed offside, but the sketch, nevertheless, states that the Greeks have won.)
Line-ups
The names of the Greek philosophers in the line-up are displayed in German in the sketch.
Germany | Greece | Referees (main and assistants) |
---|---|---|
Gottfried Leibniz (goalkeeper) | Plato (goalkeeper) | K'ung Fu-tzu (Confucius) (main) |
Immanuel Kant | Epictetus | St Augustine (linesman) |
Georg "Nobby" Hegel (capt) | Aristotle | St Thomas Aquinas (linesman) |
Arthur Schopenhauer | "Chopper" Sophocles | |
Friedrich Schelling | Empedocles of Acragas | |
Franz Beckenbauer | Plotinus | |
Karl Jaspers | Epicurus | |
Karl Schlegel | Heraklitus | |
Ludwig Wittgenstein | Democritus | |
Friedrich Nietzsche | Socrates (capt) | |
Martin Heidegger | Archimedes | |
Karl Marx - substituting Wittgenstein in the 2nd half |
(Wittgenstein was, in fact, Austrian.)
Philosophers Football Match 2010
Inspired by the famous Monty Python sketch, and with the full backing of the surviving Pythons, a tribute/replay of The Philosophers' Football Match was held in North London, at Wingate & Finchley’s Harry Abrahams Stadium, Finchley on 9 May 2010.
This tongue-in-cheek re-staging – on a real London pitch – of the original sketch, was the idea of The Philosophy Shop, a specialist provider of education and training for primary school children. The group works to enable Philosophy graduates at University level to conduct practical philosophy sessions for children aged 5 to 11 as part of a drive to boost their reasoning skills from their first days in the school environment.
Philosophers A.C. Grayling and former England Manager Graham Taylor had been appointed as managers for the event, and players included comedians Mark Steel, Tony Hawks, Arthur Smith and Ariane Sherine, as well as philosophers Julian Baggini, Nigel Warburton, Simon Glendinning, Stephen Law, Angie Hobbs and Mark Vernon, plus other academics from Universities nationwide. Match supporters included sociologist and BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed presenter Laurie Taylor, the BBC’s John Humphrys and educationalist and author Anthony Seldon.