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Wednesday, 26 July 2017
quote [ How do you get ordinary people interested in philosophy? If we are to believe the accounts of Plato, this wasn’t so difficult in ancient Athens. One simply lounged around the Acropolis harassing passersby, a tactic sure to fail in most city centers, town squares, and strip malls today. ]
I'm all for whatever it takes to get people thinking. It doesn't quite fit any any existing category (history? literature? art? religion & spirituality? science? politics?), so I stuck it in "people." John Cleese Philosophy PSAs and a talk about why metaphors make such good insults in extended.
Not part of the Franco series but an interesting lecture by one of his guests:
Elisabeth Camp, "Why Metaphors Make Good Insults" @ BKPP 4/20/2015 John Cleese's PSAs for the American Philosophical Association: http://www.openculture.com/2015/11/john-cleese-touts-the-value-of-philosophy-with-22-public-service-announcements.html
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