I recently found a new list over at Faith & Theology that was quite entertaining (if disappointing in spots). The list was an effort to pick a rock song to represent the thought of 40 philosophers. Here's a link to the list. These were my 10 favorites - the ones I think the list gets most right:
Plato - "Cave" by Muse
Epicurus - "Let's Live for Today" by The Grass Roots
Augustine - "Time and Love" by Laura Nyro
Rene Descartes - "Suspicious Minds" by Elvis Presley
Thomas Hobbes - "Welcome to the Jungle" by Guns N' Roses
Gottfried Leibniz - "Wonderful World" by Sam Cooke
George Berkeley - "It's All in My Mind" by George Jones
Ludwig Wittgenstein - "Vienna" by Ultravox
John Rawls - "Long Black Veil" by The Band
Harry Frankfurt - "Rock N' Roll Bullshit" by Against Me
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Now, I'll admit that some of the others I probably don't get because I'm not familiar with everyone's work. And some are probably connected by lyrics in the song that I'm unfamiliar with. But some are just blatantly wrong. He gave Karl Marx the song "Money" by Pink Floyd. Preposterous. Yes, the song talks about a few of the negatives of money, but mostly just talks about what money gets you and its role in modern life...which, of course, Marx hated. I would have thought "Money" would be a perfect song for someone like Weber, Hayek, or Friedman. Another horrible selection was "Uncle John's Band" for John Locke. Seriously? You just picked that because it has the name "John" in it. So this is apparently the theme song for everyone in the world named John. Such a lazy pick.
This list claims to be "rock songs" but a quick glance through makes it pretty clear that "rock" is being defined quite liberally here. George Jones? Since when is George Jones "rock"? Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, the Bee Gees...these are all pretty questionable for the title "rock". So instead of limiting my list to "rock" I'll limit it to songs in my library. Here are some I came up with. Some are new for philosophers not on the list and some are different options for guys that are on there already. There are a few who aren't technically "philosophers" but they are at least closely related to philosophy and the songs fit, so I included them anyway.
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Parmenides - "One" by Metallica
Karl Marx - "Imagine" by John Lennon
Ayn Rand - "The Trees" by Rush
Ludwig Wittgenstein - "Vicious Circles" by Aaron Lewis
Peter Singer - "Dirty Deeds" by AC/DC
William James - "Because I Got High" by Afroman
Maimonides - "Pretty Fly for a Rabbi" by Weird Al Yankovic
Jacques Derrida - "Ramblin' Man" by The Allman Brothers
Clark Pinnock - "Flavor of the Week" by American Hi-Fi
Sun Tzu - "Art of War" by Anberlin
David Lewis - "If I Could Turn Back Time" by Cher
John Locke - "Fight for Your Right" by The Beastie Boys
Richard Dawkins - "Loser" by Beck
Thomas More - "Shangri-La" by Believable Picnic
Aristotle - "Heaven is a Place on Earth" by Belinda Carlisle
Gaunilo - "Antisaint" by Chevelle
David Chalmers - "Zombie" by The Cranberries
Bill Joy - "Armageddon It" by Def Leppard
Bertrand Russell - "White Flag" by Dido
Montesquieu - "Dear X (You Don't Own Me)" by Disciple
Voltaire - "Ordinary World" by Duran Duran
Plato - "My Immortal" by Evanescence
John Duns Scotus - "Everybody's Fool" by Evanescence
William of Ockham - "Razor" by The Foo Fighters
J.L. Schellenberg - "Unanswered Prayers" by Garth Brooks
Cornel West - "Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta" by Geto Boys
Thales - "Liquid" by Jars of Clay
Thomas Kuhn - "Jump" by Kris Kross
Edmund Gettier - "Don't Know Much" by Linda Ronstadt & Aaron Neville
Gorgias - "I Alone" by Live
Nelson Pike - "Fatalist" by Monarch
Blaise Pascal - "The Gambler" by Kenny Rogers
Friedrich Nietzsche - "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Tears for Fears
Peter van Inwagen - "Freewill" by Rush
Emmanuel Levinas - "Epiphany" by Staind
Hope you enjoyed!
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