Today we’re revisiting a classic Monty Python skit. The setting is the 1972 Munich Olympics. The event is a football/soccer match pitting a German philosopher against a Greek philosopher. On the one hand, the Germans, Hegel, Nietzsche, Kant, Marx, and Franz Beckenbauer. On the other side, Archimedes, Socrates, Plato, and the rest of their friends. What about the referee? Confucius. of course.
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