Every year, I write a historically themed Christmas Carol because history geek. So here’s this year’s!
“Wake up Ye Blinded Gentlemen/Greek Metaphysics” (from “Oh Come Ye, Merry Gentlemen”)
Wake up ye blinded gentlemen
Chained up here in this cave
See that the shadows facing you
Come from a fire that waves
Behind you is the source of light
From illusion be you saved
For Plato, reality is far
Far away
For Plato, it’s far far away.
But Aristotle deems that this
Vision is just crap
Defining what a thing is
Instead means that you ask
What common factors do they share
Reality fixed fast
To potential do you grow
Do you grow
To potential do you grow.
But forms and growth potential
Do not reality make
Pythagoras feels like
These ideas are fake
True nature is symbolic math
Think what here is at stake
Oh metaphysics Greek
Ancient Greek
Oh metaphysics Greek.
