<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459908" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>What is your substance...?</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">What’s your ‘substance’, Aristotle, pray? -<br>that in your book On Metaphysics, you <br>should feel the need to look at ‘being’ more<br>than Plato said of soul? How ‘know thyself’? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You focus your so glorious mind, O sage, <br>on what confronts us in our human state; <br>hoping that from there, all will disclose<br>itself; and so you seek to formulate: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">in Book Four, Chapter Two, acutely list<br>four ways, four meanings, of the Greek as used; <br>to us, they’re more apparent grammar-wise: <br>‘being’ as noun, verb, adverb, adjective…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">you ultimately choose the languaged thing: <br>nouned as existence, substance - ‘ousia’; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">no wonder Shakespeare took you up on that; <br>asking as he did, God’s self in human form<br>what were the essence of that insubstantial<br>substance that the world’s whole being holds: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and out from all these cloudy worlds of thought -<br>it’s ‘constancy’ in godly human heart..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wonder, Aristotle, if Will’s search<br>to see the One that’s constant in the All<br>would satisfy your subtle Grecian mind? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">or, in Creation’s grammar as it lives, <br>do active verbs precede substantive nouns? <br>And do we know our godly self more true, <br>as constant in ourselves, in Being Now? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">*</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[For Pete, who asked]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459908" data-title="What is your substance...? de Michael Shepherd" data-description="What’s your ‘substance’, Aristotle, pray? - that in your book On Metaphysics, you should feel the need to look at ‘being’ more than Plato said of soul? How ‘know thyself’? You focus your so glorious mind, O sage, on what confront..."></div> </div> </div>

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