Philosophy capsules
Plato forms
Aristotle causes
The mind ascends ….
Augustine curses
Aquinas deprives
Matter is shunned.
As Descartes divides
Matter from mind
Hobbes fears
Locke objectifies
Mill expresses
Freud psychoanalyses
Matter ascends…
Leaving mind behind
Rousseau romanticises
Hume doubts
Kant moralises
Hegel idealises
Mind tyrannises matter.
Marx materialises
A frictitious faulty integration
Jung mystifies mind
Nietzsche electrifies matter
Foucault liquifies both structures
Thus, goes the story of human nature
Lobotomised between matter and mind
Lacking the cohesive force called life
Socrates simply smiles
Zarathustra erupts in laughter
Krishnamurti stoically observes
Ramana stays poised
Osho sardonically smirks
While Aurobindo attempts
To integrate matter , life and mind
With and within the tremendous force
Of the exiled soul, to usher in the twilight
Where the sun eyed children transform
Into the sturdy architects of immortality..
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