Plato, St Francis, Eckhart, Rousseau, Kierkegaard, Stirner,...

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Plato, St Francis, Eckhart, Rousseau, Kierkegaard, Stirner, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Wittgenstein, Derrida, Deleuze — Poets

Aristotle, Aquinas, Benedict, Leibniz, Calvin, Luther, Hobbes, Locke, Diderot, Voltaire, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Kojeve, Sartre, Foucault— Philosophers
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Abraham — Philosopher
Jesus — Poet

Gives a sense to “before Abraham was...”
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The Philosopher is the Law Engraver, defending the LETTER of the Law— the Poet “remembers the spirit of the Law”
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Both are necessary— but there is always a quarrel about “who came first”— did the Poet inspire the Philosopher, or does the Philosopher inspire the Poet?
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Even Socrates is inspired by... the poems (or laws?) engraved on the entrance to Temple of Apollo at Delphi— from the Seven Sages— all politicians & true philosophers— but from where were they inspired? Is the “inner daemon” of Socrates a poet or philosopher? Or something else?
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