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A philosopher, one Bishop Berkeley, The Hegelian inclined Bosanquet, Said the soldierly mystic call Bradley, As Bradley is said to have said, There was an old man of Nepal, That somewhat stout Scot, David Hume, Descartes was because he thought. H D Thoreau's position contends That rather unnerving chap, Hegel, Martin Heidegger said "Don't repine His Critique of Pure Reason was good, Said philosopher-physicist Jeans, Such "logic," I'd say, starts with 'il,' That punctilious pedestrian Kant Said noted philosopher Kant, Without being too oratorical, Long the dogmatic Kant was to doze Of the garde, he was clearly avant, PHILOSOPHY, realm of deep thinkers, Let the eugenist reach for his gun! That worldly-wise Gottfried Leibnez Said the Chinese philosopher, Lin, There once was a tutor called Locke There was a young man of Thames-Ditton A brain in a vat called Putnam, A hopeful old fellow called Rousseau. Said the famous philosopher, Russell, A philosopher named Samuel Schnott That gloomy old sage, Schopenhauer, Cries of "Blasphemy!" often are hurled Biography's all about gloire, When a man's too old even to toss off, he "It's the males should do housework in fact, chum," That temperate man, T H Green, Much more than his novelist brother, Said Wittgenstein, "Don't be misled! A weirdo yclept Wittgenstein Please don't think, though, if that's Platonistic, To hear Platonists spiel the oration, Still, philosophers shouldn't just stare, The view for which Plato's renowned-- In fact, though there's bound to be pain, The answer, so goes Plato's wisdom, For Plato, society's plan To be sure, though, it's mere prolegomenon, (prolegomenon - critical introduction)
Well, let's hope to give Plato some flak, In any case, kudos are due Plato said, "Getting children is right. "Something is, or is not--there's no median: In the book of which Plato's authorial, Thus "Being admits of degrees" What's more real, on the Platonist's menu, Thus consider, for clarity's sake, On the theory that Plato deployed, Whether most will agree, then--or few will- We're mere prisoners; our bodies are cells-- But for most--maybe eight out of nine-- Only love for Platonic Ideals: Thus a soul, somewhat fallen and blighted, Still, for those who'd regain their high station, On the other hand--no point denying, In any case, journey's inception From the very first things we cognize, Our senses at most should remind us Thus salvation from earthly confinements It's the Good--on the way Plato told it-- Thus testing will give indication
Once said, metaphysically, darkly,
"Quite half what we see
Cannot possibly be,
And the rest is altogether unlarkly!"
--- R F Ashley-Montagu
Said, "It's really, you know, rather wet
To expect each finite chappy
To be well fed and happy,
For the Absolute ain't in our debt.
--- L S Sprigge
"Please don't take my system too sadly.
It's really quite fun
Thinking everthing's One.
We should all feel unreal very gladly."
--- L S Sprigge
"If I think that I'm lying in bed
With this girl that I feel,
And can touch, is it real;
Or just going on in my head?"
--- F H Bradley
Couldn't get Chomsky's wavelength at all.
While Teilhard du Chardin
Led him right up the jardin,
Levi-Strauss drove him straight up the wall.
--- Anon
Said, "This cosmos of ours has no room
For forces or powers.
It's just hours and hours
Of impressions, then ideas, till the tomb."
--- L S Sprigge
J S Mill for pleasure fought.
When it comes to philosophy,
What matters to you and me
Is how to behave as we ought.
--- Lynn Mostafa
Masses of men cannot make amends,
And reverse the sensation
Of quiet desperation,
So proceed to lead lives of loose ends.
--- Loren Fitzhugh P0411
Tied us all to the view to inveigle
That pure Nothing and Being,
Far from not agreeing
In becoming, are playboy and playgirl.
--- L S Sprigge
If you don't quite catch what's my line.
You don't need much German
To follow my sermon,
As long as you know the word "Sein!"
--- L S Sprigge
If not all that well understood.
Said Shiller to Hegel,
While sharing a bagel,
"If Immanuel Kant, who then could?"
--- Ogni Gioia
"How many or few are five beans?
Friend Einstein says four,
Five, six, or more;
But I don't bloody know what he means."
--- R C Owen
The chance that it's true is quite nil;
If true, it would stun
Both Johnson and Donne,
In fact, it would make them both ill.
--- Anon
Said "The realness of thought I must grant.
As for time and for space,
You may laugh in my face,
But call me genuinely real, I just shan't."
--- L S Sprigge
"I need a more sexual slant.
I've delved into monads
But slighted my gonads --
Three cheers for a fresh stimulant!"
--- Armand E Singer 400
Considering Kant's categorical,
Should one treat one's friends
As means or as ends?
Or is the query too rhetorical?
--- Ernest Lefever Lib Lim
Till the day he encountered Hume's prose.
But that's mere correlation
And no justification
To conclude Hume's the cause that he rose.
--- Graham Lester
Though with tendencies to rave and rant.
He retired for one season
But critiquing pure reason,
His cash flow said, "Immanuel, you Kant."
--- Loren Fitzhugh P0307
Poets, and other hard drinkers,
And some, like Karl Marx,
When up wrong tree barks,
Provide some incredible stinkers.
--- Chris Papa
Would Keats have been Keats if A1?
And the world better off
With a healthy Van Gogh.
And a clean-living, right-thinking Donne?
--- Stanley J Sharpless
Had most of the angels in fits,
When he said, "You external relations
Are just private sensations,
From one monad to 'tother, nowt flits."
--- L S Sprigge
"To trouble to work is a sin.
In bed I shall stay,
And the toil of the day
Will be finished before I begin."
--- Anon
Who said that the self's like a sock.
Thought the wool is quite new,
It's still really you,
Because it's been darned without shock.
--- L S Sprigge
Who found Sartre and Freud unbefittin'.
While Marcuse and McLuhan
He felt were just doin'
What's commonly known as bull-shittin'.
--- G2530
Said "Perhaps this whole world's just a scam.
Still my thoughts must refer
To their causes out there.
What they are, I don't give a damn."
--- L S Sprigge
Saw that man was not born bad, but grew so.
If you change his surrounding,
You'll find grace abounding.
You must turn the clock back to do so.
--- John Fay
"One can come without moving a muscle
When sufficiently blotto,
Just watch Lady Otto-
man's bum as it bursts from her bustle."
--- Victor Gray
Thought he'd proved there exists Lieber Gott;
For such was Schott's girth,
He's the shape of the Earth.
Coincidence? Most surely not.
--- Anon
Said, "There's much more nettle than flower."
Nothing more he reviled
Than the person who smiled
And grieved not at Cosmic Will's power.
--- L S Sprigge
When Spinoza's ideas are unfurled.
He said: Only in thought
Is God more than He's wrought;
So He's great -- but not out of this world.
--- Jim Weaver Collection
Sensuality, money, pouvoir --
I am somewhat morose
'Cause de Spinoza:
It's always the same triste histoire! (sad history)
--- E Fox
Can sometimes be consoled by philosophy.
One frequently shows a
Strong taste for Spinoza,
When one's balls are beginning to ossify.
--- Robert Conquest
My wife said, which took me aback some.
But I couldn't oppose her
When she quoted Spinoza:
"Even Nature's a whore if she vacuums."
--- Don Moore P9004
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Said, "There's something divine but unseen,
Which spins the relations
Which makes our sensations.
A real world, if you see what I mean."
--- L S Sprigge
William James believed in the other.
"The I and the You
Are equally true,
Though we start and we end in one Mother."
--- L S Sprigge
What can be shown, cannot be said."
He aimed to be sensible,
Not incomprehensible,
But wrote the Tractatus instead.
--- Peter Alexander
Called out, this whole word is "just mine."
But later he noted,
That an ego so bloated,
Had no room for mine or for thine.
--- L S Sprigge
Life's made drabber than faded old lipstick.
On Plato's itinerary,
Mere Logic's preliminary:
So once passed, we can still play the mystic.
--- Lim Hist of Philos
Things all strive for amelioration.
But the Good yields direction
That's still short of perfection,
When it's seen through the veil of sensation.
--- Lim Hist of Philos
Once the Good's seen all naked and bare.
Since (not dead) they're still human,
They should use their acumen
To take charge of Society's care.
--- Lim Hist of Philos
The Philosophers all should be crowned
The Philosopher-King:
What a wonderful thing!
(If they only would stay on the ground!)
--- Lim Hist of Philos
Coming back to mere shadows again.
So why seek the "cave",
And remain till their grave,
Once they've been in that higher domain?
--- Lim Hist of Philos
Is found in a circular system.
If they're bred by society,
Then there's perfect propriety
In our claiming the right to enlist 'em.
--- Lim Hist of Philos
Picks one path for each woman or man.
If your wishes are contrary,
You'll get what you want rarely;
What you'll do is just what you best can.
--- Lim Hist of Philos
There's some Good in each natural phenomenon.
But that's only a clue,
And of course wouldn't do
When we're trying to turn a real Brahman on.
--- Lim Hist of Philos
That he's at least been there and back.
For, if not, who's to rule
In that very first school,
Where we're told what we have or we lack?!
--- Lim Hist of Philos
To this thinker who thinks as few do.
Whatever his merit,
At least he's no parrot,
And what's more, gives us crackers to chew.
--- Lim Hist of Philos
It's a duty a man must not slight.
But as for a measure
Of sexual pleasure,
It's the boys every night for delight."
--- A N Wilkins P9210
Simple falsehood!" said Plato , Athenian.
When a man spouts this dictum,
We're forced to evict him:
Let's just kick him right off the procenium.
--- Lim Hist of Philos P9310
True Being is quite incorporeal.
But while matter falls short
Of what's actual 'tout court',
It's not null, but at least somehwat more real.
--- Lim Hist of Philos P9310
Was among the Platonic decrees.
What mere sense makes apparent
At most has a share in't;
But it's never as real as you please.
--- Lim Hist of Philos P9310
Has its home in a more heavenly venue.
Only starts in this firmament
Lend a meaning that's permanent
To whatever sensations might send you.
--- Lim Hist of Philos P9310
Shaping rings, and the shape they can take;
What we've made is material,
But their shape--that's ethereal--
Since it's rings, not their shape, humans make.
--- Lim Hist of Philos P9310
In itself, all of matter's mere Void.
When there's more that we're seeing:
That's its brush with Real Being--
Which affects it, yet stays unalloyed.
--- Lim Hist of Philos P9310
All of matter is basically dual.
But now what about us,
Who can know thing are thus--
What are we on Platonic construal?
--- Lim Hist of Philos P9310
Fell from Heaven, yet why no one tells.
Only one thing is sure:
If our lives have been pure,
We'll go home after hearing death's knells.
--- Lim Hist of Philos P9311
Merely sensual living seems fine.
What they maybe don't know
Is that, after they go,
They're just apt to come back as mere swine.
--- Lim Hist of Philos P9311
By its nature, that's all a soul feels.
But once it's been jailed,
It's of course soon assailed
By a gang of less lofty appeals.
--- Lim Hist of Philos P9311
Might let more than one inpetus guide it.
To seek Wisdom's just one--
But now Fame, and sheer Fun,
Join the list of the things that excite it.
--- Lim Hist of Philos P9311
There's just one way--that's ratiocination:
If we let more attract us
Than rational practice,
We'll be bumped from return aviation.
--- Lim Hist of Philos P9311
It takes time to get ready for flying:
Though to say it's to rue it,
There are few who can do it
Without several times living and dying.
--- Lim Hist of Philos P9311
Is the data received through perception.
But that's only a start, of course,
Since our aim is to chart a course
To the Forms of which they're a reflection.
--- Lim Hist of Philos P9311
We'll perceive how our souls start to rise.
But we'll soon start to sink
If, instead of to think.
We're content when we're feasting our eyes.
--- Lim Hist of Philos P9311
Of a vision of Truth far behind us.
But were we more keen
Just on "making the scene,"
The whatever we've seen, will just blind us.
--- Lim Hist of Philos P9312
Needs more study of Reason's refinements.
To reach heavenly altitude?
Only those will learn how to do't
Who "get off" on their Logic assignments.
--- Lim Hist of Philos P9312
That's the Source from which Truth is unfolded.
But as source of all light,
In itself, its too bright
To let all but a handful behold it.
--- Lim Hist of Philos P9312
Of the ones bound for high education.
The rest are then routed,
Insofar as they're suited,
To (a) Army (b) skilled vocation.
--- Lim Hist of Philos P9401
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