HEARING EYE Publications
Raymond Geuss
Raymond Geuss, philosophy lecturer at Cambridge University and author of the seminal The Idea of a Critical Theory and Morality, Culture & History is also a poet.
Here, he has gathered together a series of instructional poems on how to live based on the works of Plato, Catullus, Juvenal, Martial, Euripides, Sappho and Aeschylus, whose works appear in the original Latin and Greek alongside Geuss's contemporary equivalents.
Topics include eating, drinking, work, indigency, old age, looks, cleanliness, sex, death, and the posthumous evaluation of human achievement.
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"When it came first into the room where the prince was, with a great many Dutchmen about him, it said presently, 'What a company of white men are here!' They asked it what he thought that man was, pointing at the prince? It answered, 'Some general or other.' When they bought it close to him, he asked it, 'Whence come ye?' It answered, 'From Marinnan.' The Prince, – 'To whom do you belong?' The Parrot, – 'To a Portuguese.' Prince – 'What do you do there?' Parrot, – 'I look after the chickens.' The Prince laughed, and said, 'You look after the chickens?' The Parrot answered, 'Yes, I, and I know well enough how to do it'; and made the chuck four or five times that people use to make to chickens when they call them."
John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689).
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