Friars, According To Shakespeare

Friars, according to Shakespeare

Character: so I have this problem with my boyfriend-

Friar: have you considered faking your death?

“she was born special. maybe i was one of the first to realize that” now how the hell did you come to that conclusion

Dead Poets but as philosophic stuff because I'm desesperately trying to learn this shit and nothing is sticking to my brain:

Neil: existencialism, specifically absurdism. Basically, life has no meaning, so you can either accept it or not. There is no greater goal or anything. Includes thinkers such as Camus or Sartre.

Todd (mostly at the start of the movie): determinism, which is kind of the opposite of existencialism, since the idea is a 'everything was planned out before and you cannot change it' type of mindset. It excludes freedom of choice, since your decisions have very little impact over everything. You're just in a boat in a storm and you have very little control over anything.

Charlie: hedonism, which is the pursuit of pleasures and the avoidance of pain. According to this idea, you'd take action depending on how much pleasure or pain you'd get from it.

Cameron: utilitarianism, or acting in a way to maximize happiness for the biggest amount of people. Includes philosophers such as Bentham or John Stuart Mill. Examples of utilitarism could be: if you were a train conductor and you had to either

stay on tracks, do nothing and hit a group of people that were on the rails

change your trajectory and instead hit one person

what would you do? Well according to utilitarism you would change trajectory, as it would benefit the greatest amount of people.

Meeks: rationalism and consequentialism. Tbh I don't really understand rationalism, but from what I know, its basis is that reason is a source of knowledge and stuff. Consequentialism is interest in the consequences of one's actions; realistic consequences. So before you act you think of the consequences kind-of-thing.

Pitts: solipsism, according to which the only thing that exists for sure is the thinker. I don't really get how it's different from Descartes 'i think therefore i am', but so solipsism would mean that you can only be convinced of your own existence.

Knox: idealism; reality, perception, ideas etc are all linked, and ideas represent a reality. I didn't really listen during this part of the lesson tbh -which is why I have to revise now using things like this post-.

Mr. Keating: stoicism; accept that some things are out of control, and act in a way so to do right by others and stuff. A stoist philosopher was, for example, Crysipus, who died laughing at his own joke.

Chris: eudaemonism, which is similar to hedonism, except that happiness is seen as a logical finality and it's basically a fact that most people want happiness. So it's happiness instead of pleasures that is pursued, with philosophers such as Epicurus.

Mr. Perry (not a Dead Poet but the only person I could think of for this): deontology, which is like a set of rules around duties and obligations, and has as a goal to preserve future generations. Idk he doesn't totally fit deontology but I had no one else in mind. Anyways I hate Mr. Perry and I hate learning philosophy.

Ranking 'Agony' clips again because the links didn't fit in one post:

(Basically I rank renditions of 'Agony' from 'Into the Woods' despite having no knowledge about musicals)

part 1 here

Daniel Evans and Julian Ovenden: 7,23/10, nice, there were hints to agony and the 'ah-ah' was alright

Jeremy Stolle and Jeremy Hays: 7,67/10 the sentences left me gasping for air and not in a good way I'm afraid

Tyler Gent and Charlie Greenwald: 9,02/10, it actually felt like a duo (the characters weren't just vaguely telling lines while the other stood there) and it was dramatic and pretty fun

Roggi Chuquimarca and Nicolas Noa: 9,04/10, fun and the second 'ah-ah' part was unexpected but nice

Chris Millison and Mike Hinkle: 8,07/10, fun to watch and at this point it's my only critieria lol

There you go ✌️

Todd: I have something to ask you

Neil: *looks at his watch* uhm, we should hurry up, but, okay babe sure go ahead

Todd: I'd like to know if you really, do like me.

Neil: .....

Todd: .....

Neil: babe we've been together for 7 years and we're getting married in 10 minutes

Percy Weasley not even clapping when Slytherin won the Cup is hilarious to me for some reason he COULD NOT be bothered lol

(On the image: Harry and someone clapping to Slytherin winning while Ron and Percy try to explode others with their mind)