One night in Paris, while Bart is fishing in the Seine, and Lisa, you'd suspect, debating philosophy at Les Deux Magots, Homer dons the proverbial existentialist turtleneck and with Marge strolls past the cathedral.
She spent hours at a time debating philosophy with one student, both of them equally opinionated.
They worked on monologues and debated philosophy.
This idea, in fact, is at the heart of Bratton's famous (and once hotly debated) philosophy of zero-tolerance policing.
Aside from the Shakespearean theatre, debates, philosophy walks and life drawing, there is wild swimming, boating, horse riding, hot tubs and a wealth of kids' entertainment.
'Imagining Madoff' By Deb Margolin Played at Stageworks/Hudson, Theater J and other regional theaters; slated to open at New Repertory Theater outside Boston in 2014 PLOT The jailed financier debates philosophy and ethics with Solomon Galkin, a poet and Holocaust survivor.
He was still keeping mostly to himself, occasionally hanging out with his Pakistani friends, who partied too much and too hard, he thought, but were warm and generous and buoyant intellectual company, always willing to debate philosophy and the political issues of the day.
"It's pointless to debate philosophy," I would say, "You can't deduce one true answer and it's not going to be applicable in the real world!" She would try to explain things like existentialism and phenomenology to me while the only philosophers I could name were the ones that had mathematical theorems named after them.
Hey, I never said you had to debate philosophy or politics.
The writers eventually spent a full month just discussing these issues, both specifically and generally — studying the Old Testament, debating personal philosophies, and then working to create a sustainable mythology for the show before they started scripting episodes.
