PLATO’S THEAETETUS

Ummm. . . What is knowledge?

It’s true, justified belief.

So says Socrates.

ARISTOTLE’S NICOMACHEAN ETHICS

The mean between bads

is the one golden good thing

not quite in balance



THE ANGEVINS’ MAGNA CARTA

Freemen are glad that

the King’s law is not the law

unless you’re a serf

DESCARTES’ MEDITATIONS

I think therefore I

am of a creator’s world

where I think I think

MACHIAVELLI’S THE PRINCE

People need your rule

rule them with a candy fist

keep them smiling scared

NIETZSCHE’S THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA

What hurts is what makes

a man into overman.

Fuck other people.

PAINE’S THE RIGHTS OF MAN

Rights are natural.

Rulers abuse their power

perverting nature.

SARTRE’S BEING AND NOTHINGNESS

You’re free not to think

existence precedes essence

but why wouldn’t you?

MARX AND ENGELS’ DAS KAPITAL

Proles and Bourgeois fight

over their class positions.

Sharing is caring.

JOYCE’S FINNEGANS WAKE

riverrun nobit

teargarten remembers him

humming a long the

HEGEL’S THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE SPIRIT

Consciousness’s grow

in search of the absolute.

We never find it.

Eli Stubbs is a

writer who spends his spare time

counting syllables

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