Contemplum

Full of both simple and profoundly complex philosophical poems, the Contemplum series, volumes I-III, offers smiles, simple ideas, and also big ideas invoking profound reflection. Socrates said, "I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say." Hutcheson is much like those poets to whom Socrates referred, except unlike the poets of Socrates' day, Hutcheson has full understanding of what he says and means. He is both a philosopher and a poet, the likes of which lovers of poetry and philosophy will study long into the future. The Contemplum series are books you are likely to love.