All right; all right. But apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order, what have the Romans ever done for us? Like their colonial forefathers, the Monty Python comedy troupe have done more for us than is instantly apparent. According to editors Gary Hardcastle and George Reisch, these cult comedy favorites have contributed insights (however involuntarily) to philosophy, mythology, Buddhism, feminism, logic, ethics, and the philosophy of science. Like the other books in the popular Open Court series, Monty Python and Philosophy illuminates while it entertains.