Walt Whitman - The Base of All Metaphysics

And now gentlemen,
A word I give to remain in your memories and minds,
As base and finale too for all metaphysics.

 

(So to the students the old professor,
At the close of his crowded course.)

 

Having studied the new and antique, the Greek and Germanic systems,
Kant having studied and stated, Fichte and Schelling and Hegel,
Stated the lore of Plato, and Socrates greater than Plato,
And greater than Socrates sought and stated, Christ divine having
studied long,
I see reminiscent to-day those Greek and Germanic systems,
See the philosophies all, Christian churches and tenets see,
Yet underneath Socrates clearly see, and underneath Christ the divine I see,
The dear love of man for his comrade, the attraction of friend to friend,
Of the well-married husband and wife, of children and parents,
Of city for city and land for land.

Submited by

Viernes, Abril 8, 2011 - 23:52

Poesia Consagrada :

Promedio: 3 (1 vote)

Walt Whitman

Imagen de Walt Whitman
Desconectado
Título: Membro
Last seen: Hace 14 años 37 semanas
Integró: 04/08/2011
Posts:
Points: 849

Add comment

Inicie sesión para enviar comentarios

other contents of Walt Whitman

Tema Título Respuestas Lecturas Último envíoordenar por icono Idioma
Poesia Consagrada/Biografía Walt Whitman Biography 0 11.352 04/13/2011 - 17:13 Inglés
Poesia Consagrada/Biografía Walt Whitman Biografia 0 13.026 04/13/2011 - 17:10 Español
Poesia Consagrada/Biografía Walt Whitman Biografia 0 11.530 04/13/2011 - 17:05 Portuguese
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : Youth, Day, Old Age and Night 0 6.915 04/13/2011 - 17:03 Inglés
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : You Felons on Trial in Courts 0 11.807 04/13/2011 - 17:01 Inglés
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : Yonnondio 0 8.136 04/13/2011 - 17:00 Inglés
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : Yet, Yet Ye Downcast Hours 0 7.104 04/13/2011 - 16:59 Inglés
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : Years of the Modern 0 8.437 04/13/2011 - 16:59 Inglés
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : Year of Meteors [1859-60] 0 8.760 04/13/2011 - 16:57 Inglés
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : The Wound-Dresser 0 8.395 04/13/2011 - 16:56 Inglés
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : The World Below the Brine 0 7.572 04/13/2011 - 16:55 Inglés
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : A Woman Waits for Me 0 7.655 04/13/2011 - 16:53 Inglés
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea! 0 10.560 04/13/2011 - 16:52 Inglés
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : With Antecedents 0 9.849 04/13/2011 - 16:51 Inglés
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : Who Learns My Lesson Complete? 0 9.277 04/13/2011 - 16:50 Inglés
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand 0 7.851 04/13/2011 - 16:48 Inglés
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : Whispers of Heavenly Death 0 6.710 04/13/2011 - 16:47 Inglés
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : When the Full-Grown Poet Came 0 8.687 04/13/2011 - 16:46 Inglés
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd 0 8.484 04/13/2011 - 16:45 Inglés
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : When I Read the Book 0 7.219 04/13/2011 - 16:43 Inglés
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : When I Peruse the Conquer'd Fame 0 10.012 04/13/2011 - 16:42 Inglés
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer 0 15.703 04/13/2011 - 16:41 Inglés
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : When I Heard at the Close of the Day 0 9.904 04/13/2011 - 16:40 Inglés
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand? 0 7.129 04/13/2011 - 16:38 Inglés
Poesia Consagrada/General Walt Whitman Poems : What Ship Puzzled at Sea 0 13.744 04/13/2011 - 16:37 Inglés