Death
...As a literal phemomenon, Death is fearful.
As paradox, an antidote to fear.
As life in death, it focuses on life.
As something absurd, one must cope with it,
Edmund Husserl or Viktor Frankl’ll h...
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Categories:
husserl, death,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
When In Pain
...When I am in pain,
My ego would be the first to leave,
As rats would a sinking ship;
The greater the pain the faster it leaves!
My drives get ready to play a masochistic role.
All philosophers,...
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Categories:
husserl, inspirational, motivation, pain, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Complementarity
...Whether you’re on the side of Love—
With Buddha, Sankara and Husserl,
Or on the side of Suspicion—
With Nietzsche, Freud and Bloom,
The principle of complementarity
Works for you,
As for Paul R...
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Categories:
husserl, science,
Form: Lyric
Absurdity
...Is it a new phenomenon,
Known to the world
Through Beckett and Camus?
Sophocles long ago
Heard it on the Aegean.
Oedipus, Bhartrhari, Buddha—all,
Over a period of intense suffering,
Learnt t...
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Categories:
husserl, analogy,
Form: Lyric