Socrates was always
gadflying,
Going round probing and
prying.
The folks in the agora
Got sorer and sorer
And soon had old Socrates
dying.
*
Socrates' method was ironic.
While his follower's was Platonic.
”Go on, be brave!
”Get out of the cave.
”Or else you'll remain moronic.”
While his follower's was Platonic.
”Go on, be brave!
”Get out of the cave.
”Or else you'll remain moronic.”
*
Seneca said take it day by
day;
Over events we really have no say.
He was tutor to that zero--
The emperor known as Nero.
And with his life he had to pay.
Over events we really have no say.
He was tutor to that zero--
The emperor known as Nero.
And with his life he had to pay.
*
"It is not very rough
To shave away the extra stuff,"
Said William of Occam.
(Don't ever mock'm;
He'll surely call your bluff.)
"It is not very rough
To shave away the extra stuff,"
Said William of Occam.
(Don't ever mock'm;
He'll surely call your bluff.)
*
There is really no fakin’
There is really no fakin’
Respect for Roger Bacon.
For in the 13th Cen.
Unlike other men,
He tried to get science
shakin’.
*
My mail filter thinks him a
sham
And sends his messages
straight into SPAM.
But Rene Descartes
Is really quite smart,
Insisting, “I think, thus I
am.”
*
Your hat you must doff
To each French philosophe.
For they never were frightened
To make people enlightened
And smart as a university prof.
To each French philosophe.
For they never were frightened
To make people enlightened
And smart as a university prof.
*
Existentialists, needing a
bard,
Latched onto the Dane
Kierkegaard,
Who, never dissembling,
Showed in Fear and Trembling
How living is really quite
hard.
*
Among the big American
names
There is a certain William
James.
In thought, never static,
He was rather pragmatic
And
investigated mystical claims.
*
About Sisyphus,
said Albert
Camus,
He had only one thing to do--
To push up that rock
Each day round the clock.
For that was the punishment due.
He had only one thing to do--
To push up that rock
Each day round the clock.
For that was the punishment due.
*
“Simone,” said her lover,
Jean-Paul,
“Let’s you and I tonight
have a ball.
“There’s no-one to phone;
“We’ll do it alone.
“Hell is other people, after
all.”
*
Kant was too cagey;
Nietzsche too ragey.
Aristotle
Hit the bottle.
And Aquinas was much too
beige-y.
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