à propos: philosophie (2016)

• 85%
• 2016
• Dokumentarfilm
• Neal Graham
• Jonathan Krude
• Torsten Schoeneberg

Is happiness good for human beings? Is truth ' s erfindung? At the International Philosophy Olympiad teenagers are looking for answers. "everything you say and think" slides freely through the worlds of the national competition in Germany and the finals in Denmark - worlds inhabited by teenager who have all experienced the feeling of being treated like verrückten, simply because of their passion for philosophy. Now they find out that they have allies all over the world. And emerges here Neal and Jonathan's friendship, the two German delegates. Neal reads Plato on his e-book-reader and if he ' s bored he fantasizes about the challenge of having a zombie-as-a-pet. Jonathan has dedicated his whole life to philosophy. His passions are kindled by epistemological fragen like: How can we be bestimmten that we aren ' t swimming in an ocean of lava right now? Questions that are enough to keep Neal und Jonathan awake the whole night. The film embraces thinking as a way of life. It ' s a record of ...