It didn't take long for other designers to realize that the Second World War made for an ideal dramatic backdrop, and that Nazis, with their pristine Hugo Boss uniforms and irredeemable yet easy-to-parse philosophy, made for ideal antagonists.
Through the animated videos on his channel, he offers crash courses in history and philosophy, parses out the modern meanings of overused words, and outlines his tips for vital skills like, "How to Make a Decision" and "Finding Your Mission".
Their mighty, nearly twenty-minute scene with Jeannette, an elaborate and intricate religious disputation — which has the precisely modulated dialectical drama of an Éric Rohmer film — is a full philosophy, complete with a parsing of the Passion and accusations of blasphemy.
Viewers not trained in the more technical aspects of modern philosophy may find it impossible to parse, but it does indicate a remarkable will to achieve systematic understanding of how we think and behave.
And, of course, to draw attention to the sources of Thomas's philosophy is not to say that everything he holds philosophically can be parsed back into historical antecedents, or that he never disagrees with his sources, Aristotle in particular.
Now, there's a sentence that needs parsing — indeed, it is probably very close to what both Bill Clinton and Tony Blair mean when they call their philosophy the Third Way.
Fodor's work focuses on the philosophical problems about psychology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, theories of cognitive architecture (modularity, interactionism, etc)., psycholinguistics (especially, parsing), and child's theory of mind.
