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Naturallurker -> A poetic word to the unwise. (12/28/2009 7:09:37 AM)

There's Hegel and Nagel
and a great many who,
describe in great detail
why we do what we do.

There's Heidegger  and Schopenhauer
and old Wittgenstein
professing the beauty
of the world and the mind

Plato and More
in a utopian state
Molina and Boethius
each arguing fate


De Beauvoir the midwife
of  existential Sartre
And good Saint Aquinas
with God in his heart

meta this meta that
and isms galore
semantics and antics
and an awful lot more

Yet which in the end
has a chance to sink in?
when you've read all the words
but they don't mean a thing

Who writes your script?
who is left now to blame?
comrades find you lacking
and observers the same.

Philosophy's wasted
on the mind of a lout
now please leave the stage
and turn the light out.

[;)]





Musicmystery -> RE: A poetic word to the unwise. (12/28/2009 7:32:01 AM)

Hi Naturallurker,

I've always liked the (deliberate) irony at the beginning of Poe's "The Purloined Letter" (also verbal irony)--

They are considering a mystery, the purloined letter, and they are doing so in the library, surrounded by volumes of famous philosophers, many discussed later in the story. And they are sitting in the dark.

Happy New Year!





Naturallurker -> RE: A poetic word to the unwise. (12/28/2009 10:54:03 AM)

Hi Musicmystery

Just having picked up T H Green's prolegomena to ethics, the introduction p1 made me smile.

Happy New Year to you and yours too
N






Musicmystery -> RE: A poetic word to the unwise. (12/28/2009 11:25:38 AM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: Naturallurker

Hi Musicmystery

Just having picked up T H Green's prolegomena to ethics, the introduction p1 made me smile.

Happy New Year to you and yours too
N


Here's a link, if anyone's interested:

T H Green's prolegomena to ethics




mnottertail -> RE: A poetic word to the unwise. (12/28/2009 11:29:03 AM)

Uff Da....nearly as rough as this bitch 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus' by Wittgenstein.
This one will make you vomit on your shoes.

Hup




Musicmystery -> RE: A poetic word to the unwise. (12/28/2009 11:54:30 AM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: mnottertail

Uff Da....nearly as rough as this bitch 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus' by Wittgenstein.
This one will make you vomit on your shoes.

Hup


For those who wish to try:

'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus' by Wittgenstein





mnottertail -> RE: A poetic word to the unwise. (12/28/2009 11:59:46 AM)

Tal Tim,

I actually read that cracker dry motherfucker once....as a pure matter of will, and became Hup the Fool, and swore off alot of seriousness for time hence and immemorial.

Ron




Musicmystery -> RE: A poetic word to the unwise. (12/28/2009 12:08:19 PM)

Ron,

"Life is far too important to be taken seriously."

--Oscar Wilde




Dinnardin -> RE: A poetic word to the unwise. (12/28/2009 3:41:24 PM)

The Philosopher's Song (Monty Python)

Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
Who was very rarely stable.
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table.
David Hume could out-consume
Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel,
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.

There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya'
'Bout the raising of the wrist.
SOCRATES, HIMSELF, WAS PERMANENTLY PISSED...

John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.
Plato, they say, could stick it away;
Half a crate of whiskey every day.
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,
Hobbes was fond of his dram,
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart: "I drink, therefore I am"
Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed!



Johm, AKA Dinnardin




Musicmystery -> RE: A poetic word to the unwise. (12/28/2009 9:56:11 PM)

Now, if the Scotsman on a horse is David Hume....

[;)]




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