Table of Contents Popular Culture and Philosophy™ Series Editor: William Irwin Title Page Dedication Chapter 1 - “What’s All This Then?” The Introduction The Importance of Being British What, That’s Not Enough for You? Bloody Hell, There’s More!?! Okay, That’s All for Now And Where the @#$%^& is the Queen? Philosophical Aspects of Monty Python Chapter 2 - “Life’s a Piece of Shit”: Heresy, Humanism, and Heroism in Monty ... “Blessed Are the Cheese Makers”: The Question of Heresy “A New World, a Better Future”: The Question of Humanism “Life’s a Piece of Shit”: The Question of Heroism Chapter 3 - What Mr. Creosote Knows About Laughter To Laugh, or To Scream? Who’s Afraid of Mr. Creosote? Just Desserts Chapter 4 - The Limits of Horatio’s Philosophy What I Think My Chapter May Be About Wittgenstein and Meaning: The Absurd and The Funny Meaning and Practice Chapter 5 - Why Is an Argument Clinic Less Silly than an Abuse Clinic or a ... What Kind of Argument Would You Like? The Philosophical Argument and Reflective Equilibrium Suppose You Were Attached to a Dead Parrot: The Role of Thought Experiments Chapter 6 - A Very Naughty Boy: Getting Right with Brian How I Was Saved God Is Dead (and I’m Not Feeling so Good Myself) This Deity Is Bleedin’ Demised The Plumage Don’t Enter into It Romani Ite Domum A Good Spanking Getting Right with Brian (Just in Case) Chapter 7 - Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Philosophy, Gender, and Society Mynd You, Moose Bites Kan Be Pretty Nasti . . . Why the Pythons Chose Arthur and the Grail Come On, You Pansy! We Have Found a Witch. May We Burn Her? We Have but One Punishment. . . . You Must Tie Her Down on the Bed and Spank Her Er, Well . . . the Thing Is . . . I Thought Your Son Was a Lady Yes, but What About the Killer Rabbit? Chapter 8 - Against Transcendentalism: Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life and Buddhism Is There Really Something Called ‘Transcendental Metaphysics’? What’s So Wrong with Transcendental Thinking? What’s So Grotesque about That? Back Down to Earth Mind the Mindfulness Chapter 9 - Is There Life After Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life? Life, the Journey: The Axial Answer Death and (the Meaning of) Life Philosophy as an Answer Liberating Laughter And Now for . . . Comedic Eliminativism Aspects of Pythonic Philosophy Chapter 10 - God Forgive Us In Alphabetical Order: Birth Control (and Other Intimate Matters) Blasphemy (Name-Calling: With Sticks and Stones to Break Your Bones) Heaven (Capitalize for Effect) Bonus Material: The Origin of Monty Python’s Christmas in Heaven Is Revealed ... Hell (Capitalized because Heaven Was Capitalized) A Short but Grave Reflection about God and Hell (You Can Use This at Your ... Justice (A Philosopher Is Observed) Prayer (A Euphemism for Butt-Kissing and Begging) Chapter 11 - Monty Python and David Hume on Religion Causes and Reasons The Ontological Argument Get Me to the Argument Clinic! The Conceivable versus the Possible, Or, How to Confuse a Cat The Argument from Design, or, “All Things Dull and Ugly” The Argument from Miracles, Or, “He’s Been Taken Up!” The Cause of Religion, Or “Oh Father, Please Don’t Boil Us” The Epilogue: A Question of Belief Chapter 12 - Madness in Monty Python’s Flying Circus Michel Foucault: Madness as a Social Construct Pythonic Madness Urban Idiots: Foucauldian and Pythonesque Chapter 13 - Monty Python and the Search for the Meaning of Life Markets and Motives: Utilitarianism and Monty Python’s Flying Circus Tradition and Traits: Virtue Theory and The Holy Grail Religion and Rules: Deontology and Monty Python’s Life of Brian Knowledge and Nihilism: Science and Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life Chapter 14 - Existentialism in Monty Python: Kafka, Camus, Nietzsche, and Sartre Kafka, Camus, and the “Absurd” The Individual and the Meaning of Life Sartre, Bad Faith, and Freedom A Nietzschean Conclusion Chapter 15 - “My Brain Hurts!” Hair of the Dog Making Sense So Show Us Do You See It? Through Them, on Them, over Them An Exercise for the Reader No Ambition How to Patent Nonsense “Is There Life After Death?” “Language Games” “I’d Like to Put This Question to You, Please, Lizard” Does It Sit on a Chair? “But—They Simply Do Not Talk” “Is There Enough of It About?” Chapter 16 - Why Is a Philosopher Like a Python? How Philosophical Examples Work Complaints about Complaints and Thinking about Thinking Madmen, Blancmanges, Violinists, and Abortion The Practical Value of Philosophical Examples So, What Have Philosophers Ever Done for Us? Pythonic Aspects of Philosophy Chapter 17 - Tractatus Comedo-Philosophicus A Senseless Waste of Human Reason The Overcoming of Philosophy through Comical Paralysis of Language Coda Chapter 18 - Monty Python’s Utterly Devastating Critique of Ordinary Language Philosophy What the Fly Saw The Story of Ordinary Language Philosophy: Britain’s Most Influential ... The Problem with Brilliance Bruces A Knockout of an Argument Chapter 19 - Word and Objection: How Monty Python Destroyed Modern Philosophy In My Day . . . The Trouble With Dead Parrots, and Sketches About Them What Is to Be Done? Chapter 20 - My Years with Monty Python, or, What’s So Funny About Language, ... Hume’s Gap Hume’s Incomplete Advice The Complete Two-Minute Introduction to Conceptual Schemes And Therefore . . . No Shoes for Muskrats: How the 1956 Olympic Games Destroyed Indonesian Art Chapter 21 - Themes in Contemporary Analytic Philosophy as Reflected in the ... “International Philosophy,” from Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl “Dead Parrot,” Episode 8 of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, “Full Frontal Nudity” Arthur Meets the Black Knight, Monty Python and the Holy Grail “Argument Clinic,” Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Episode 29, “The Money Programme” “Nudge Nudge,” Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Episode 3, “How To Recognise ... Burn The Witch, Monty Python and the Holy Grail “The Cheese Shop,” Episode 33, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, “Salad Days” Everyone Remembers Their First Time: About the authors, nearly all of whom have ... What Was All That,Then? Copyright Page Popular Culture and Philosophy™ Series Editor: William Irwin VOLUME 1 Seinfeld and Philosophy: A Book about Everything and Nothing (2000) Edited by William Irwin VOLUME 2 The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D’oh! Of Homer (2001) Edited by William Irwin, Mark T. Conard, and Aeon J. Skoble VOLUME 3 The Matrix and Philosophy: Welcome to the Desert of the Real (2002) Edited by William Irwin VOLUME 4 Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale (2003) Edited by James B. South VOLUME 5 The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy: One Book to Rule Them All (2003) Edited by Gregory Bassham and Eric Bronson Volume 6 Baseball and Philosophy:
