Tag: philosophy
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The Atomist Said
You think the world unique? I tell you, If every second you picked up a pebble – Every second, from now until your dotage – And placed it in a pile, You would not reach a tenth Of the number of worlds That congeal and rarefy in the void. You call the world comely? I…
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Anaxagoras
“…Mind arranged all things, including this rotation that the stars and the sun and the moon and the lower air and the ether now undergo as they are separated off.” Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, fr. 476 KRS (=Simplicius, in Phys. 164,24 and 156,13) He had it all wrong. Not just wrong, but flipped, As a film…
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Empedocles
“And these things never cease their continual exchanging,/At one time coming together, all into one, through Love,/At another time again borne each apart through the enmity of Strife.” Empedocles of Acragas, fr. 348 KRS (=Simplicius in Phys. 158,1) Already, like the Blues and Greens in the Hippodrome, they’re taking sides: the poets, the philosophers, the…
Thomas R. Keith Poetry 