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Subject: RE: Songs about Philosophers, Aristotle From: GUEST,Lang Johnnie More Date: 27 Mar 23 - 04:21 PM Quite correct, on both counts, "meself". |
Subject: RE: Songs about Philosophers, Aristotle From: meself Date: 27 Mar 23 - 10:56 AM Thank you! I was searching youtube for that song last week, and couldn't recall who had recorded it. Written by Mark Graham, I believe, who would be the guy playing harmonica in the picture (or sparking up a cigarette ...!). |
Subject: RE: Songs about Philosophers, Aristotle From: GUEST,Lang Johnnie More Date: 27 Mar 23 - 10:07 AM Kevin Burke singing [ honest ! ] : "The Classical Greek" https://youtu.be/A8AvV6G7VB4 |
Subject: RE: Songs about Philosophers, Aristotle From: Stilly River Sage Date: 27 Mar 23 - 09:43 AM Philosopher's Song Lyrics (here at Mudcat) Monty Python live performance of The Philosopher's Song from YouTube Another YouTube Monty Python performance with the more formal name of Bruce's Philosophers Song (Bruce's Song) {Official Lyric Video]. Lyrics on the screen. |
Subject: RE: Songs about Philosophers, Aristotle From: Acorn4 Date: 27 Mar 23 - 09:22 AM Philosophy 1. Those ancient Greeks they real geeks As knowledge they pursued And Socrates and Plato they were real clever dudes, To fathom out life’s mysrteries They both felt the call Postulated their hypotheses To make sense of it all 2. More recently Rene Descartes Said we think therefore we am; And others they soon followed on To add to the pile of spam Of essence and existence They got in a total stew And the more they disagreed The more hot air they blew. Spinoza can’t help you when your bills are overdue And Leibnitz can’t cure you of a bad dose of the flu, Kirkegarde’s no use when you’re stuck in a traffic queue. And Wittgenstein can’t get rid of that pebble in your shoe And so to the conclusion we inevitably come Philosophy is bugger all use to anyone. 3. We now have endless “isms” coming out of our ears And professors on megabucks plot out a good career, Though their opinions differ, they can’t all be right Which means that some are being paid for spouting a load of Schopenhaur. Spinoza can’t help you when your bills are overdue 4. Now science can make progress to improve the lives we live And novelists and songwriters have important gifts to give But I fail to see how Schrodinger’s cat can change our daily lives As philosophers just pass their time gazing up their own backsides. Spinoza can’t help you when your bills are overdue Is this really a table seems such a daft question Philosophy is bugger all use to anyone |
Subject: RE: Songs about Philosophers, Aristotle From: GUEST,Dave Hanson Date: 27 Mar 23 - 03:45 AM Try Monty Pythons ' Philosphers Song ' Dave H |
Subject: RE: Songs about Philosophers, Aristotle From: GUEST,R J M Date: 27 Mar 23 - 03:37 AM Boars Head Carol has a connection with Aristotle Source wiki Where an amusing tradition formerly current in Oxford concerning the boar's head custom, which represented that usage as a commemoration of an act of valour performed by a student of the college, who, while walking in the neighbouring forest of Shotover and reading Aristotle, was suddenly attacked by a wild boar. The furious beast came open-mouthed upon the youth, who, however, very courageously, and with a happy presence of mind, thrust the volume he was reading down the boar's throat, crying, "Græcum est," and fairly choked the savage with the sage. |
Subject: RE: Songs about Philosophers, Aristotle From: GerryM Date: 26 Mar 23 - 11:49 PM We're the Thinkers / Groovy Greeks / Horrible Histories at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wCYmMi0h9U starring Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and Diogenes in a take-off on the Monkees' theme song. |
Subject: RE: Songs about Philosophers, Aristotle From: GerryM Date: 26 Mar 23 - 11:42 PM The Ancient Greek Philosophy Song, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyucNxqfvFE written and performed by Willem Crispin-Frei. Here's the first stanza: The story of ancient Greek philosophy Begins on the western coast of Turkey in 585 BC Thales bore a philosophical daughter Which was that the world was made of water Anaximander thought that it was made of stuff But Anaximenes said "Enough is enough" He had a new theory, made with care. He decided that the world was made of air. Pythagoras and his followers were a bunch of fanatics, Who thought that the world was purely mathematics. A^2 and B^2 together he paired, In a right angle triangle They equal c^2. Heraclitus thought the world was composed of fire This greatly raised Parmenides' ire He thought the world was an immovable block And the past and the future were completely locked "We have no free will at all," he said Heraclitus replied: "hey you must be brain dead Zeno of Elea agreed with Parmenides But now let's talk about Empedocles Love and strife were the two main forces As he explained in one of his many discourses They brought together earth, fire, water, air Which comprised the world, as he did declare. |
Subject: RE: Songs about Philosophers, Aristotle From: GerryM Date: 26 Mar 23 - 09:53 PM Barry's Boys is in the DT. It has the lyrics, No college days with Socrates and Plato When you're Barry's boys You just organize parades for the abolishment of NATO And the rest The entire West |
Subject: Songs about Philosophers, Aristotle From: Stilly River Sage Date: 26 Mar 23 - 07:35 PM We had a request on the Facebook page for songs about Aristotle or ancient philosophers. The Mudcat search as DOA these days so results have to come via Google search pointed back at Mudcat. Here are the Advanced Google search query results. The Lyr Req: Unified Field Theory thread is a starting place in those results. |
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