Friday, April 17, 2009

Modern Philosophers + Theme Songs

Here are some theme songs that I can think of for the Moderns:

Leibniz + Ana Ng by They Might Be Giants: Leibniz spent his life looking for love basically everywhere. His reliance on Chinese Literature and Science leads some to call him a Sinophile. The song is about finding your lover in Vietnam, perhaps, even though you haven't met her.

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/they-might-be-giants-ana-ng/2036742165


Berkeley + Any James Brown song with "Soul" : Berekeley's Empiricism was influenced by Rationality. His system was rooted in the firm belief that you could know things without error because everything, and I mean everything, is made of the soul. Notably, so did James Brown.

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Anna+Ng&hl=en&emb=0&aq=f#q=James+Brown+soul&hl=en&emb=0

Spinoza + U2's "One": This is an obvious one, no pun intended, if you're down with Spinoza, who said that everything is one thing. This served as a way to answer skeptics, who don't believe in God or Knowledge, and a way to answer misguided Religious peoples. Surprisingly, Spinoza's doctrine of "God or Nature" (or Substance I would add, to Spinoza they're all the same), curiously looks like the Judeo-Christian-Islamic declaration of monotheism, or One God.
For this Judeo-Christianity this has bad implications for the problem of evil (Sorry your Mom died, but it's God's plan. Spinoza and Religions would both say this).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFWPeVfWB9o

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