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Philosophy Poem Handbook - Poems
on Western Philosophy
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Philosophy Poem Handbook - Poems on Western Philosophy
When I first studied philosophy, I found
the original words of the philosophers not easy to understand. Even when I was
able to understand original texts, I always sought out works by commentators
-- to see how they compared to each other and to the original work, and to
help me understand the words of the philosophers. Eventually, I wound up
writing the book that I had sought. But now, it is a booklet of
poems about philosophy, with an extended Appendix in prose, that expands
on the philosophical content of the poems.
This concise
Philosophy Poem Handbook - Poems on Western Philosophy
describes the key ideas of Western philosophy in a series of philosophy poems,
Poetry, as both an art form and vehicle for expression, was greatly honored as
drama, in classical Greece. Great writers, in the history of Western thought,
used verse in extended narrative form -- from Beowulf through Chaucer,
Dante, Shakespeare, and 20th century poets, as T.S. Eliot,
Ezra Pound, and Allen Ginsberg, among others. There is no reason
why ideas of the great philosophers cannot also be related in verse!
To over 70 pages of philosophy
poems, I’ve added an Appendix of 15 pages of my philosophical
commentary on the poems, in order to expand on the themes and context.
Some selections from the poems, which appear on the printed
booklet jacket, appear below. The complete Table of Contents appears
below. It is followed by an Appendix, a 15 page commentary on all of
the philosophers whose thought is described in the poems.
Philosophy Poem Handbook - Poems
on Western Philosophy
by Paul Dolinsky, Ph.D
Here, you will find original poetry on the history of
philosophy including Plato, Descartes, empiricism, Kant, Hegel, Schelling,
German idealism, Marxism, existentialism, analytic philosophy, and shamanistic
creation. Original poems present the metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics of
these philosophers and traditions, in an easy to understand manner.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
In The Beginning
Shamanistic Creation
Plato's Forms Visit The Mall
Descartes
Empiricism
Kant's Theory of Knowledge
Kant's Moral Philosophy
Schelling
Hegel
Hegel and Schelling-Some Refrains
Themes In The Key Of German Idealism
Marxism And Beyond
20th Century Anglo-American Philosophy
Existentialism
Supplement --The New Shaman - The Merchant
Appendix
Searing Sun Specials
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Kant's Theory of Knowledge
We cannot know the real nature
of what we perceive,
The thing-in-itself,(in German, ding-an-sich)
unknowable to us,
Causes a thirst we can
never quench,
For we only know things
in space and time,
Not things-in-themselves.
However we romance
the thing- in-itself,
Or how fast we dance with our
instruments or senses,
It will not cease to beckon us
with wonder,
This world we cannot know....
Hume (author's comments on)
Skepticism does not wow us over
with its ways,
For each person is king in an empty
place
Where other minds are but landfill,
Where each mind scrapes
on the landscape of the world,
And subsists on scraps left by
other minds,
Whose existence is denied,
but through their effects,
Is implied.
Descartes
I think, so I do not sink
into what I cannot control.
I throw tow lines onto the surfaces
of things.
My mind measures the immensities
with my propensities and intensities.
Sequel To The Cartesian Mindset
I am the pilot of my ship,
like an embedded controller chip.
The world can turn against me
at any time.
My instruments—my words, my vowels
and consonants,
They are my constants, my castanets,
my casting nets.
Only these can save me.
The physicist calculates the desserts
and delinquencies of his formulas,
How his particles rumble and tumble
into galaxies, and consonants,
Unmeasured temperature of matter
igniting matters in all the spheres.
Is Spirit but reason’s delinquent uncle
Or does Spirit cry uncle to soon,
and reason not deeply enough?
Existentialism
The existentialists reject as spectacle
German speculative idealism.
We are to focus our spectacles
on choices born of realism
not idealism.
Existentialism empties the self
of essence
So it can be filled with potions
and portions
Of each person's choosing.
We are to choose freely,
not from habits or fixed attitudes,
Not from the has bin of stale
necessities
But from the bin of fresh possibilities
Will our choices feed us,
or stuff us with old dead stuff?
As with the food on our plates,
So with the moral choices in our lives.
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