Existential sports question

[Christian Miller (CMM)]

Though football is not a thing here, philosophy is, so I thought some of you would be amused by this.
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[Keith Levenberg]

Sorry, presumes too much knowledge of / interest in football. Pass!

Here's a book on philosophy and Buffy instead.

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smile.amazon.com

 

[Andrew Zachary]

originally posted by Keith Levenberg:
Sorry, presumes too much knowledge of / interest in football. Pass!

Here's a book on philosophy and Buffy instead.

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smile.amazon.com

Boring, so I punted on both links.

 

[robert ames]

you mean american concussion ball. real football is played with the feet.

 

[Jeff Grossman]

Gosh, Christian, what a bunch of Dreary Dans! I couldn't care less about football but it's certainly fun to read a professional philosopher talk smack about Kant and Kierkegaard.

 

[Jonathan Loesberg]

This piece is not really about philosophical questions raised by football. It is just a demonstration that philosophical questions can be raised about almost any linguistic formulation. What matters to philosophy, for instance, in this case, is not whether running backs as opposed to anything else matters, but what it means to matter.

If you want to watch a TV show that raises genuine deontological questions, and actually references moral philosophers germanely, check out The Good Place.

 

[Todd Abrams]

Do existential nihilists matter?

But, seriously, how can you have a discussion about philosophy and football without this?

 

[Jeff Grossman]

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
If you want to watch a TV show that raises genuine deontological questions, and actually references moral philosophers germanely, check out The Good Place.

I like that show. There will be a fourth and final season starting in September.

 

[Christian Miller (CMM)]

originally posted by Todd Abrams:
Do existential nihilists matter?

But, seriously, how can you have a discussion about philosophy and football without this?

That is a classic. What would be the philosophical equivalent of a dive?

 

[Christian Miller (CMM)]

originally posted by robert ames:
you mean american concussion ball. real football is played with the feet.

ACBL - American Concussion Ball League - has (ahem) a certain ring to it.

 

[Jonathan Loesberg]

originally posted by Christian Miller (CMM):

originally posted by Todd Abrams:
Do existential nihilists matter?

But, seriously, how can you have a discussion about philosophy and football without this?

That is a classic. What would be the philosophical equivalent of a dive?

Well, Socrates might have persuaded his team that given the injustice of the rules, they should not win, but rather all take hemlock, thus creating an enduring, and misbegotten sympathy for the Spartans (oops, I meant Germans).

 

[Keith Levenberg]

originally posted by robert ames:
you mean american concussion ball. real football is played with the feet.

It's not called football because you kick things. It's called football because you play it on foot instead of on a horse.

 

[Christian Miller (CMM)]

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:

originally posted by Christian Miller (CMM):

originally posted by Todd Abrams:
Do existential nihilists matter?

But, seriously, how can you have a discussion about philosophy and football without this?

That is a classic. What would be the philosophical equivalent of a dive?

Well, Socrates might have persuaded his team that given the injustice of the rules, they should not win, but rather all take hemlock, thus creating an enduring, and misbegotten sympathy for the Spartans (oops, I meant Germans).

More a radical roster overhaul than a dive. I don't think you can jump up and take the penalty kick after hemlock.

 

[Todd Abrams]

originally posted by Christian Miller (CMM):

originally posted by Todd Abrams:
Do existential nihilists matter?

But, seriously, how can you have a discussion about philosophy and football without this?

That is a classic. What would be the philosophical equivalent of a dive?

Could Ayn Rand's body of work be considered an unsuccessful philosophical dive?

 

[Jonathan Loesberg]

Why would you want to jump up after you've taken a dive? Does to take a dive mean something different in soccer than in all other sports? If you mean faking an injury to elicit a penalty kick, then perhaps Nietzsche could claim that Socrates' implication in the Apology that death was the cure for life was manifestly offensive to all undeluded human beings, as well as to himself perspnally.

 

[Christian Miller (CMM)]

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
Why would you want to jump up after you've taken a dive? Does to take a dive mean something different in soccer than in all other sports? If you mean faking an injury to elicit a penalty kick, then perhaps Nietzsche could claim that Socrates' implication in the Apology that death was the cure for life was manifestly offensive to all undeluded human beings, as well as to himself perspnally.

Yes. Here's one of its evil masters at work.

 

[Jayson Cohen]

originally posted by Todd Abrams:
Do existential nihilists matter?

But, seriously, how can you have a discussion about philosophy and football without this?

Wow. Fantastic. Never seen that before.

I love the in-context ironic twist at the end: And Marx is arguing he was offside.