WESTERN PHILOSOPHY IN 100 HAIKU //// TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK BY PETER MACKRIDGE

Το βιβλίο του Χάρη Βλαβιανού  Η ιστορία της δυτικής φιλοσοφίας σε 100 χαϊκού: από τους Προσωκρατικούς έως τον Ντεριντά, μεταφρασμένο στα αγγλικά από τον Peter Mackridge, κυκλοφορεί  από τις εκδόσεις Dedalus. 

 From the pre-Socratics to modern figures including Derrida and Martha Nussbaum,The  History of Western Philosophy in 100 Haiku undertakes the daunting task of conveying the breadth and richness of 2,500 years of western thought-through the 3-line form of the Japanese haiku.
   The result is a brilliantly witty survey of western philosophy,viewed through the frame of a parallel tradition.
    An ideal gift for the budding and the seasoned philosopher alike.

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17. MARCUS AURELIOUS

        121-180 A.D.

        [Meditatios]

If you stoically

adapt yourself to your fate,

you will live nobly. 

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57. WILLIAM JAMES

       1842-1910

      [Pragmatism]

What's pragmatism ?

To reckon the cash value

of every truth.

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65. G.E.MOORE

       1873-1958

   [A Defence of Common Sense]

When I raise  my hand

I cam see it move upwards .

Therefore it exists. 

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82. SIMONE WELL

        1909-1943

 [Gravite and Grace]  

Communism and

barbarism are alike:they

wear the same bow -tie.

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83. A.J.AYER

1910-1989

[Language ,Truth and Logic]

Each proposition,

including this one,must be

either true or false. 

 

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 95. JACQUES DERRIDA

1930-2004

[On Grammatology] 

The meaning slips down 

nicely.It uses the tonque 

like a playground slide. 

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97.ALAIN BADIOU

  1937-

[Manifesto for Philosophy] 

Ι don't invent truths.

I filter them through the sieve

of what i call ''events''.

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98.ROBERT NOZICK

1938-2002 

[Anarchy,State and Utopia] 

Don't I own myself¨?

Then it's legitimate to 

pocket what I can.