Philo-Sophia

From Homo Sapiens' Dawn unto its Doom

The Love of Sophia, Rhythmically

To taste with the mind, to love with our thought, to discipline our brain toward illumination, that’s the impetus of this iambic pentameter poem.

From the earliest religio-philosophical thoughts to Socrates, Plato and Aristotle…to the amazing diversity of the most recent philosophers doing the hard work of careful, rigorous thinking…to the poets who make philosophy sing in any tongue…this book celebrates.

Whether blessing or bane, philosophy’s impact on global culture is celebrated here, from homo sapiens’ dawn to their doom…to a new dawning!

If you are provoked to think again about the love of wisdom, then the raison d'être of this work will have been realized.

Here’s the last ten verses of the first chapter:

Call this our oldest future, ever new:
To think together past the walls we’ve built;
To ask what follows when we say we know,
And what we owe to beings seen or not.
The hum of thought runs under every age—
A river finding paths through rock and root.
From first surprise to seasoned clarity,
This birth continues as we breathe and speak.
The world invites; the mind replies with care;
This wonder, named philosophy, goes on.