Sunday, April 6, 2008

Intellectual Duels

If you could see two people debate who would it be and what would they debate...

Some of my personal choices...

Jimi Hendrix v. Niccolo Paganini - Why does one experiment with music?
Benjamin Franklin v. Leonardo Da Vinci - What's the best system to achieve self-awareness?
Pablo Piccasso v. Michaelango - What constitutes art?
Shakespeare v. Ernest Hemingway - What is the purpose of a character in a story or play?
Freud v. Jung - What are dreams?
Albert Camus v. C.S. Lewis - What is the purpose of suffering?
Plato v. James Madison - What is the purpose of government?
Albert Einstein v. Plato - What is reality?
Dan Rowan (future Nobel Prize Winner) v. Richard Dawkins - Is God a delusion?
Lenin v. Lennon - How do you achieve world peace?

See which ones you can come up with. I look forward to it.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Luckily God would be on my side, otherwise I don't think I would have a chance.

Unknown said...

-David Hume vs Karl Marx on economic and societal structure
-Francis Bacon vs Descartes on the nature of scientific inquiry
-Tycho Brahe vs Galileo on the structure of the universe (using only knowledge from their time)
-Confusious vs Mohammed on the nature of community
-Jimmy Carter vs Ronald Reagan on foriegn policy
-James Watson vs Francis Collins on patenting genes
-George Bush vs his speech writer on the english language