Existential Wrestlemania XXV

[apex2000]

wow the res is hurting my eyes

[beatalice]

whoa, feministic faux pas in the first 20 seconds. even though western civilization and its modern cultural manifestations favor the male perpective and personalities when it comes to philosophic thinkers i beg to dissent in the idea that there are no women in philosophy. ahem, [raises hand] i have an avid interest in the evolution of philosophy n its transcendental significance. not to mention simone de beauvoir, judith butler, nancy cartwright, emma goldman, and (for better or worse) ayn rand)

[VoiceOfReasonQQ]

i still say they "Archuleta'd" Kant

[VoiceOfReasonQQ]

@VoiceOfReasonQQ LOL...Descartes guilt by association.

[ising2love]

Platonic fallacy my aunt Fannie

[ising2love]

but ...but...but...Kant is right

prudence is the connection

[AlannahBabalon156]

LOL, this is classic stuff, bravo guys!

[danleafboy]

Wrestlemania 25 is more better

[DrStrangefate]

and where is Descartes?

or Aquinas?

[alteregoash]

The addition of Walter Kaufman's needlessly detailed footnotes was hilarious.

[619Juanma]

? ¬_¬

[Cthulttio]

Awesome!

[TheCanadianPrairies]

This is a nice video. Good work.

[drkthms1]

this is classic

[cyanidemoon]

it would be sooo much more entertaining if you had actors acting out the personalities of them all ^_- good idea

[PhiZappaCrappa]

"No time for that, Walter, Sartre is stuffing that existential void fulla neumenon right now! Nietzsche doesn't want any part of that Catagorical Imperative bloodbath. Stay tuned for Thomas "The Leviathan" Hobbes...!" Too funny, guys! ;-)

[MetalGearN30]

"The Muscle" Russle?  Seriously, everytime he moved that are I thought his flakey wrist was going to snap :S

[PhiZappaCrappa]

Walter Kaufman only drank Stolie while translating, yo. "God is in the details"! ;-)

[drkthms1]

lol

[GuyaRicanMC]

LMAO! That joke about Albert Camus biting Nietzsche's style actually made me go "OOOOOOOHHHH"

[MostFamousDavid]

Schopenhauer, while not an existentialist, definitely deserves the title of "Worlds Most Dangerous Philosopher". Who else has thrown old women down stairs?

[JohnWolfCat]

Was Kaufman a big drinker in real life?

[xhalmers860]

kierkegaard would sacrifice them all

[pojorisin]

Kant would rape all four of them at once. He may have only be 5 feet tall, but he could confound the Hell out of anyone.

[EdDuMonde]

I vill bee vaiting foah UberMania...

K.

[uberlastman]

Yeah, that's about how it would have gone. I'd put my money on Hobbes as well. Though if Leibniz made a visit with his monadology, that could create a really interesting match.

[Samanmotlagh]

Kierkegaard!

[silentfrog]

Kant would have won. Easy.

[alcarizma]

check out the monty python philosophy football game

[bpope123]

Plato, in reality, what ever that is (?) would probably kick all other philosophers' asses. In Greek "Plato" translates to literally mean "the broad". Yes, he was a rather big fellow who fought bravely during the Spartan & Greek war. I think Socrates would be a close second since he's obviously not afraid of death, and who also fought bravely. Any comments?

[SexPanther235]

I consider Nietzsche the Zeus (remember No Holds Bar and WWF, also the big bad guy from Friday) of existentialism, while Kierkegaard the Hulk Hogan. In the end, Kierkegaard wins because he's the baby face, where as Nietzsche the heel. Perhaps one of Kierkegaard's dark pseudonyms represents his NWO days?

[newsradiohead]

Kierkegaard used to be my favorite philosopher until he murder/suicided his wife and child :(

[shinobi1311991]

wtf are talking about? kierkegaard killed his child and wife?!!

[NullShade]

I have no idea what this person is talking about.

[uberlastman]

Kierkegaard never married or had kids.

[newsradiohead]

Oh sure, you are still in denial about what Kierkegaard did to his wife and autistic child. I bet you'd also deny how he got hooked to painkillers when he was trying to recover from the groin injury he received at the hands of Bentham and J.S. Mill.

[BenedictKenny]

Don't worry. I got the joke.

Some of us philosophers can be so clueless about the objective phenomenon that occur around us in these modern times.

[tybaltx]

That Flying leap of faith gets 'em every time.

[lancetheiv]

I want to see Russell vs. Wittgenstein, now there's a grudgematch. Or how about Heideger vs. Kuafman.... I think the bone of contention there ought to be pretty obvious

[sadafzahoor]

this was stupid. Let me guess where it came from, college television?

[mrroftheg]

Awesome...

Soren K's my man, this is exactly what would've happened...the flying leap of faith gets em' every time...I'd kinda like to hear the next match though...I'm putting my bets on Hobbes...

[cultusstultus]

Ending sucked, dudes! Nietzsche, not unlike Chuck Norris, with a single thought would have melted Kierkegaard into a puddle of dysentery. Then, he'd wipe his mustache and go for a hike on his ass!

[cultusstultus]

Nietzsche rules!!! Also, awesome Walter Kaufman impression.

[Kynos1]

Stupid, ignorant children! Kant was, among other things, the predecessor of german idealism (Fichte, Hegel, Schelling), but NOT an existentialist! Blaise Pascal, who lived some decades before Kant was an existentialist, but Kant was not!

[listeningriffin]

good stuff!! philosophy of comedy sounds like something the field needs. i wouldnt call it existential tho.

[PhilosopherMystic]

Kant as an Existentialist ... interesting ... I don't remember that at all. Kant was one of the very first to coin the term, " Phenomenology " but never existentialism. Oh, and I don't like this video.

[lazyoldsun]

i would have liked to see the matches myself?

[skrewey]

A+ for a drunken passed out Kaufmann.

[bmankazaam]

Kant is an existentialist?

[ohem]

The sound sucks! Besides Nietzsche would win, after all he was a bit insane and unafraid of any form of pain.

[Kierkegaard73]

Seeing how Nietzche never climbed out of the Aestectic stage of life; I would wager that he trembled at his concepts of Anxiety, and thus suffered a Sickness Unto Death.

[GrishanMisha]

I second that!