Bruce's Philosophers Song

[UkLuvsDisneyLyrics]

i do philosophy & ethics....they should teach us more stuff like this rather than the usual dribble about whether an action is just because you have a sense of duty or its morally right...urgh hehe

[djtubeish]

Stone me, Bruce, that's a bonzer animation - as slick as weasel shit on hot lino mate (beware music lovers, I can see this becoming a Samba number).

@chainedtotheworld: I'll second the praise for Locke-in, btw.

[sqccccccccc]

Did Jhon Stuart Mill on his own free will, drink until his wife was peticularly ill?

[PeterWanCheng]

you forgot to mention Beckenbauer in the credits!

[clone63355]

0:39 LMAO

[Loobs666]

I'm struggling to think of a rhyme for Jeremy Bentham. Any ideas.....?

[chainedtotheworld]

@Loobs666

Schopenhauer, seemed to have the power,

To keep going when all others were useless,

But when out on the town, even he'd fall down

Long before Confucius,

What's truly shockin', when Hobbes was on a Locke-in,

how the bar tab would surely lengthen,

And Kierkegaard was permanently barred,

When he started a brawl with Bentham

[Loobs666]

@chainedtotheworld Lengthen/ Bentham... Hell yeh! And much kudos to the 'Locke-in' lol! Very good...very good indeed :-)

[chainedtotheworld]

Berkeley was a lightweight, spending sunny days in parks,

Sipping pink champagne with Bacon, Hobbes and Marx.

Old Avicenna never touched a drop,

but Bertrand Russel just couldn't stop.

Saint Augustine would lick the bar clean,

If you tried to stop him he'd get pretty mean.

If Spinoza was denied when his mouth was dried,

Then he'd kick up quite a stink.

And for no reason that we know, the fellow named Zeno,

Could never finish off his drink...

[NoirFan01]

allegedly Immanuel Kant died a virgin.

[Goudlokje666]

I found the mistake: Aristotle was a beggar for the bottle, not a bugger, Socrates is a bugger

[MaverickOrange]

I drink, therefore I am.

[Kronk1996]

OMG klagar ni alvarligt på stavningen????? det här är typ mitt favorit youtubeklipp, vem bryr sig om hur Hegel stavas. det är inte jordens undergång precis

[MrSieish]

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[TheVodkaHaze]

I find it funny they mention Nietzsche when he was in fact a teetotaller :P

[GoldenGal42]

I really am trying to think of what little mistake you made that bothers you. The only other mistake I can spot is at 0:19 "couldn't teach y 'bout..." is it the lack of the 'a' for 'ya'? All the names are correct par two, drinks are correct, images are correct... hmm... I'm not poking holes. I love this video but you say 'there's another mistake' I have to find it. XD

[SinisterMurder]

@GoldenGal42 Look at the endcredits at the Friedrichs (all of them).

[GoldenGal42]

@SinisterMurder There are credits?!

*watches*

OH DEAR GOD!

[Danlows1]

Drent1 a pissant is someone who is drunk all the time, so it makes sense in the song!

[IlyaPitta]

I found it depressing to learn that Nietzsche was actually strongly opposed to the consumption of alcohol. :(

[hasjkdhlsjakDHLASJKD]

why is the french last ?

[bazzamataz72]

@hasjkdhlsjakDHLASJKD because everyone hates the french....... even the french

[Alexander82211]

Haha thanks for this

[sleeming88]

Descartes actually does look rather pissed-up in that picture.

[OxygenChrist]

"Heidegger, Hedegger was a boozy beaggar who could think you under the table"

Indeed ha was! I´m reading his "Being and time" right now, and I don´t understand SHIT!!!

[setcho01]

@OxygenChrist I struggled through the first 200 pages or so of Being and Time and was on the verge of giving it up until I bought the Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Being and Time by Stephen Mulhall. Reading both takes longer but B & T definitely became less of a struggle and I'm sure I understood more in the end.

[OxygenChrist]

@setcho01 Yeah, I found some old book at the library which haf about 30 pages or so summing up Heidegger, so I read that insted :P

[kyrastube]

lyrics by eric idle but music by neil innes if my memory serves me right. or at lest by idle/innes. the reason those two men were soooo pissed off at each other was that neils name slipped away from some python-record.... but still, great song and cute little video. :)

[drempt1]

at the start doesn't he say piss tank not pissant. only reason i ask this is because i have herd the term piss tank but not pissant. i could be wrong

[dunavbalkan]

It's great to watch this along with the philosophy football .. made my day, thanks!

[coolpokemongirl]

LOLOLOLOLOL

Like this if you agree ^-^

[ePhilosopher9]

nice jew harp

[Xiany1]

Dude, that explained everything I needed to know for my philosophy class! lol

[drmccann1983]

Well done!

[loriloristuff]

my husband is an honest-to-goodness philosopher at the American version of Woolloomooloo. He loves this song! He makes all intro students listen to it. He has the occasional student who doesn't like the "dirty" words, but the students usually like it, too.

[FullersDuck]

Nice job!

[Adrianlking]

23 people hate monty python!!!!!!!!!!!!

[spyware60]

There we just all alcoholics =)

[Catzilla021]

Great video. I think you can write off all mistakes by saying you were too drunk to notice at the time!

[snicky58]

Great job on this!

Stop me if you've heard this one (oops, too late!):

Rene Descartes walks into a bar, sits down, and orders a beer. When he's drained it, bartender asks him, "Would you like another one, sir?" Descartes replies, "I think not." Then he promptly disappears. :-)

[sebron98]

@snicky58 stealing this.. cause its AWESOME! also I lol'd.

[joelboosman]

@snicky58 don't get the joke...

[snicky58]

@joelboosman It's not really too hilarious a joke, I know, but the philosopher Rene Descartes was famous for saying "I think, therefore I am." So the joke is that when he says "I think NOT," he no longer exists.

[joelboosman]

@snicky58 aahh, now I get it all (even the song itself!) thanx for the update!

honestly I'm not really into philosophy, I just like the songs ;)

[HeavyWeaponsGull]

Bibendum ergo sum

[CoyoteBuddy]

Wonderful! Misspellings and all.

[gilanafaye]

hooray, monty python! it's amazing how much trivia i know thanks to their songs.

lovely job with the lyrics! :)

[amusedtodeath1]

I had a professor for world history who made my class sing this song for extra credit at the end of the semester. The team that I was in did the best rendition, earned the extra credit, and did well when it came to the philosophy related questions in our final.  Great song Monty Python. Great song.

[babony5]

this little song helped me remember the names of philosophers for a semester class. thank you Monty Python

[DaGGortiz]

The only way you can tell if someone is a good philosopher is by how pissed he gets.

[Ironsouled]

@DaGGortiz

Kidding, right? all my philosophy major compatriots love this song... I'm only a minor myself, but I love it as well.

[mrcodhead67]

Class!

[jpsartrean]

So who are the most important omissions? Aquinas, Berkeley, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Marx, Sarte... maybe even Ayn Rand.... Others??

[zzzozzz]

@jpsartrean

Apparently Monte Python thought Schopenhauer was the most important omission since whenever they did the song live they sang "David Hume could out consume Schopenhauer and Hegel" instead of "David Hume could out consume Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel"

[jpsartrean]

@zzzozzz I'm a Schopenhauer fan, but I'd say both Marx and Locke were more important/influential...

[000DarkNite000]

@jpsartrean Ayn Rand? Really? If you're going for political philosophers, Burke, Paine, Rousseau are far more significant.

[jpsartrean]

Philosophy degree from the University of Michigan here - and I could probably talk for (at the very least) 5 minutes on any of the philosophers mentioned in the song.... Save Schlegel. I've got... Nothing on Schlegel..... Anyone?

[goddoll]

This is an amazing pov video!

[wjrcbrown]

(It's GEORG Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.)

[TheoryZero]

Hahaha, I laughed my ass off x'D

Awesome animation man :D 5/5

Only thing, maybe you should re-upload it with better sound quality? :) Because this is by far the coolest version out there!

Cheers ;)

[MrDavies90]

What does it mean "David hume could out consume W.F Hegel"?

[Benocrates399]

@MrDavies90 It means that Hume could drink more than Hegel...which was probably true, knowing Hume's affinity for food and drink.

[PixleViewer]

@MrDavies90 he could drink more the him

[MrDavid5304]

there's no A in ya you just have Y. I guess it's ok though.I couldn't co anything half as good as this.

[sleeming88]

Descartes actually does look a rather drunk in that picture.

[falstaffswims]

"Would you like ennui or despair with that?" "I'll substitute a dialectically reifying self-aware global proletariat, if you still got those." "We stopped them thangs, & tha lemon bars, like 2 yrs ago sir. Now: ennui or despair?"

Oh, dreadful. See what happens when you mispell Hegel?

P.S. I always forget how to spell mispell: mispell of misspell?

P.P.S. Long novella short, though: AWESOME VIDEO. Loved this version. ...and somehow "Plato they say..." is the funniest part to me.

[Nickl245]

@falstaffswims you what mate

[falstaffswims]

When I see that in your credits (not video proper), the spelling "Hagel," let alone type it myself, in a comment, I start getting a... hankering for... bagels. Yes, a "hankering." Off for bagels, and probably will get so entranced thinking out critiques of dialectical reasonthey'll throw me out of Brueghers for scribbling wildly in my fakey philosopher notebook, or making Sartrean-safe semi-Marxist comment on the Hegelian master-slave dialectic at work behind the oppressive service counter.

[falstaffswims]

Just noticed... okay, there's a pissy way to point this out, and a less-pissy way. I hope I don't come off as the former (pissy, pretentious prick who pretends typographics are supremeley important iff he happens to notice someone else's). And now the conclusion of my longest ever comment for a very simple point: YOU SPELLED HEGEL "HAGEL." Caps, not cause I'm yelling, but for emphasis in this long blather.

[bedgyro]

@falstaffswims

Alas, I also misspelled David Hume's first name in the end credits. Oops, but I can live with that.

The little mistake that actually bothers me hasn't been noticed yet...

[falstaffswims]

@bedgyro Ah! The "Freidrich" instead of "Friedrich"? Awesome video in any case!

[ncis11]

@bedgyro my turn, not that its important really, in the end credits all of the Friedrichs have been spelt "Freidrich". irrespective of petty typos I LOVE THIS VIDEO :)

[jpsartrean]

@bedgyro 'Nietzche couldn't teach y' ? ;-)

[Will762]

@bedgyro "think you under the table"?

[dd201011]

@bedgyro you missed out the "A" on "teach YA". Do I win a prize?

[foxyvosje]

@bedgyro

Most British people spell whisky without the 'e'. Otherwise the Sxots hate us even more.

Whiskey isn't incorrect, byr refers to the produce of countries other than Scotland and Canada.

[mwstevenson]

@bedgyro

Would the "little mistake" be that:

"There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach Y 'bout the raising of the wrist"?

[WeaselKing1000]

@bedgyro Is that the mispronunciation of 'Friedrich' by any chance?

[c3mills]

@bedgyro Is it that Nietzsche and Schlegel should be "Friedrich"? No one blames you for any of it. Those names are ridiculously difficult, and I'm not not Monty Python would disapprove. It's just that, upon reading your comment, I was challenged to find the error. :)

[whoistheru]

@bedgyro oo ooo i know i know: the lyrics say "teach ya" and the text only says "teach y"

[drslobulus]

@bedgyro Was it the lone "y"?

[pukeoncops123]

@bedgyro Is it that you just put "y" for "ya"?

[stoprainingonme]

@bedgyro You misspelled 'FrIEdrich' in the end credits. Is that the mistake that bothers you?

Cheers for the upload mate.

[lindentree93]

@bedgyro Daivd?

[StoneCypher]

@bedgyro The apostrophe?

[fannymcslap]

@bedgyro The missing 'a' in ya in the section about Nietzsche?

[ExBeeOne]

@falstaffswims

The internet in general could do with some of your.. diplomatic skills, well put :)

[cptfreakout]

Smeggin great!!!!!!! love the back grounds. Remember smart comedy?.

[chrisahrbeck]

john stuart mill on his own free will

BEST PART!!!!

[MsMoonTheLoon]

socrates himself was permanently pissed :D

[superstar122251]

"Immanuel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable" XD

There are stories about kant drinking too much red wine that he couldn't find his house.

[jpsartrean]

@superstar122251 Only story I ever heard about Kant was about his obsessive, robotic devotion to his afternoon walk.... Btw... Who lives in a town named Konigsberg?? (Or Koenigsberg if you're being technical)??

[SirKyrness]

@jpsartrean it's called Kaliningrad now, and is part of Russia. My cousin Dimitri lives there.

[PowerTrip1771]

this song ALWAYS gets stuck in my head whenever i'm in philosophy ....

[avaryss]

The third time I've posted this song--but Paul has never heard it! Shocking!

[Jawohr]

From which episode is this?

[OeditpusRex]

@Jawohr It wasn't in MPFC, though on the album "Matching Tie and Handkerchief," it's part of the "Bruces" bit that's in episode 22. They also did it in their live shows around 1980; it's on the "Live at the Hollywood Bowl" DVD.

[jordanmachuca]

I drink therfore I am

[superiormusic]

Does monty pythons brilliance know no limti?

I love them even more know (5 stars).

[drake96969]

im gona convince my teacher to let us sing this at my schools next assembaly

[mar1lyna]

jajaja, "Socratres himself was always permanently pissed" XD

[RioGiovanni]

lol!

[maichips]

I love this song! :D

It brings to mind Plato's Symposium. Socrates was probably completely smashed, but he didn't show it one bit! XD

[TheMikejk]

The monty python play on the Australian beer drinking song, using philosophers as counterpoint.  It's brilliant and hilarious.

[j0hnny4eyes]

What? I don't get it.

[live4love14]

Now it's all clear! now i understand why all those philosophers said what they did. i've been studying all this year but monty python taught me more than my teacher.

[IlyaPitta]

It's great to actually get the jokes after studying Philosophy A-level for a year!

I laughed pretty hard at the John Stuart mill joke XD

[FandPrulethesky]

@IlyaPitta I did did the same! Thank you python for my A

[bedgyro]

Yes, this is silly, but the men of Monty Python were quite well versed in philosophy. Some of the jokes in the song reference the philosophers' ideas, and numerous sketches in the Flying Circus show are so heavy with philosophy that you can't get the full depth of the jokes without some background.

Your own ignorance is showing with this comment. Every philosophy teacher I've had appreciates Python's philosophy jokes, and loves this song in particular.

Thanks, for watching though.

[Rockdoc54]

Bedgyro,

This is a great example of the Pythons' collective knowledge--one of many, I should say--thanks for posting it. I am currently directing a graduate seminar in musical aesthetics, dealing with almost all of the philosophers named in the song, and my students love the song and your video. So thanks for sharing! Steve

[bofhd89o]

ok,because you are the fuckin one who uploaded this vid ,ofcourse you will defend on your shitty point of view..so i will not waste time arguing with you

[IlyaPitta]

are you serious or just trolling?

[OeditpusRex]

@bedgyro Indeed; witness on YouTube "International Philosophy" from the German episode that was filmed in English.

[kktnxby]

@bedgyro

100% agree.

[gamegyro56]

@bedgyro I'm new to Monty Python, but I like philosophy. Can you give some examples of sketches that are "heavy with philosophy"?

[formerutuber]

@gamegyro56 Philosophy football

[bofhd89o]

@bedgyro omg I've just noticed you're comment, and yes i was ignorant at that time..thank you for response, it really helped me and enlightened me ;)..thanks again

[crimsonclover87]

@bedgyro what's really interesting is ALL of the men of Monty Python are/were (RIP Graham Chapman) were extremely well educated! John Cleese actually went to law school, and Graham Chapman went to Med School. to me, that's part of what makes this so awesome is the underlying intelligence of it all

[Vildasnaga]

...and im sure that as the great men they were, thay know how to laugh at and about themselves and know how to recognize a JOKE.

Chill man, there's no offense intended here, and in fact, after hearing the song i was inclined to look up each philosopher in greater detail :P

[GaiusIuliusTaberna]

@bofhd89o What is sad is your inability to have a sense of humor.

[troublesaway]

@bofhd89o what i think is sad is someone who is stuck so far up their own ass, theyve lost their sense of humor. its just a joke man! get over it, anyone who takes anything so seriously that they cant laugh at it is losing out on life. you can INFER whatever you damn well please but that doesnt mean its correct. you think cause someone thinks this is funny means they wont learn anything? how ridiculous is that? your respones is the biggest joke of all! besides its not like they were lying...

[misstrespain666]

@bofhd89o monty python did this as a laugh so live wiv it u sad person and i watch this as it is meant to be watched as a laugh

[poopinyourpantsporn]

@bofhd89o Philosophers, not scientists. And stick to the uploader's response.

[bofhd89o]

@poopinyourpantsporn omg, man i cant even remember when I've wrote this comment..i haven't even read any response of it..that was a total misunderstanding..thanks anyway

[VoxJoxx]

Brilliant, great post tx.

[free0fight]

im into philosophy, and this is freakin' hilarious=]

[ePhilosopher9]

new orleans saints 2010 IF I AM WRONG ANTIOCH IMMEDIATELY

[TherealMrChristophel]

according to my dad this was how he remembered his philosophers.

[MegaTinaj]

HAHAHA I love this song, its just so clever, classic Monty Python, BRILLIANT!!!

[whateverTut]

I drink therefor I am.. Best quote! :) Love Monty Python.. :)

[matyioXD]

my second favourite monty python song! the first being eric the half a bee

[Triplesod]

Haha! Ohhh I feckin' LOVED Eric the Half a Bee when I was a kid!! LOVED it!!:-)

[matyioXD]

yeah. its stupid. but funny. but thats why it was funny it was pointless thats why.

[Muckbird1234]

Plato and whiskey! HAHAHA

[xanaminx]

haha! Now I can finally understand the words!

[Triplesod]

Well, if you watched the video/DVD of Python, live at the Hollywood Bowl, the philosopher professors, Bruce, Bruce and Bruce actually point out the words on a giant screen behind them, as they sing the song, y'know... so the whole audience can sing along. It's great!!:-)

[sjhobday]

Love Frydrich!

[sjhobday]

should be 'drink you under the table'

[bedgyro]

No, it's "think."

[sjhobday]

Nope!

[ryanb9]

no i think it's drink....

[reft75]

its a joke. its referring to the fact that they are philosophers

[gobbygirl77]

They meant to say "think you under the table" the song is about philosophers, work it out man

[Triplesod]

Bloody 'ell, mate! Talk about missing the point! Did you hear the "whooshing" sound as it flew over your head?

Of course the original phrase is "drink you under the table" but this is the Philosopher's Drinking Song, so they use word play, y'know, Heidegger was a philosopher, in other words, a great thinker, so he'd both drink and think you under the table.

Like they have used Renee Descartes famous "I think therefore I am", changed to "I drink therefore I am".

Do you know what I mean, mate?

[LordAmbitious]

@sjhobday it's called a pun

[jlnthreestooges]

philosophy? is that a sport?

[LessthanJake14]

Lol, good one...

[mdiem]

It's a sport you can drink while playing..

like bowling!

[DocLow]

As much as sport as hampster wheel races.

[Kov89]

Do all philosophers have an "S" in their names?

[jeremylneufeld]

yeah, i think most of 'em do.

[mpfc1913]

does that mean selina jones is a philosopher?

[cellomanman]

Immanuel Kant

Martin Heidegger

David Hume

Friedrich Hegel

John Mill < middle name Stewart but still

Plato

are all in this song.

[Rockdoc54]

You mean like Plato? Duhh!

[Rockdoc54]

It demonstrates one's ignorance more when they don't understand the satire

[RiddlesGhost]

quality

[Babyjenbrat]

Hmm...I think I finally get it. lol! Sweet...

[Triplesod]

Eh? What exactly were you not understanding previously? I mean, it's a very straight forward gag, as many Python are (they rely more on absurdism than well crafted lines with a start, middle and punchline), so I don't really know what could have confused you.

Maybe you were over thinking it before, mate?

[daltonh4]

A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed!

[Nintendoood]

Hilarious! Favourite line is: "I drink, threfore, i am"!

[mightywindmill102]

"There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya 'bout the raising of the wrist..." LOL

[steakhousemafia]

sweet

[onerandomperson]

its funny cuz its probably true.

[Triplesod]

No, extremely unlikely to be true that those philosophers were heavy drinkers. Hehe, in fact, they 100% definitely were not!:-) Why on Earth would you think that? The gag is not that they were big drinkers really but that they weren't! That's the absurdism to it, that's what makes it funny.

Don't get me wrong, no doubt one of two of the mentioned thinkers could have a good go at it in their time.

[Triplesod]

Although, saying that, Socrates did actually die from drink.

Technically;-)

[jpsartrean]

@Triplesod Actually, I'd say Socrates died from spite....

[LynrdSkynrd69]

@Triplesod i don't think you want to try to get drunk on hemlock, though, no matter HOW well you hold your drink.

[poopinyourpantsporn]

@Triplesod Indeed. A quite heavy brandy. May I say, paralyzing ;)

[heroicfailures]

@Triplesod it was dropped on him yeah? sorry just want some confirmation