/lit/ - Literature

>As a HS I read Socrates' Apology and the Symposium.
>Years later, I decide I need some philosophy in my life so I go out and buy The Republic.
>Realize I don't understand shit about it.
>Buy the Illiad and the Oddyssey.
>Ok this is pretty cool but I'm not sure I get it, I finish them anyways.
>Then read the Republic and 8 more of Plato's books thinking I "get them"
>Read history book.
>Realize there was tons of stuff I didn't get while reading the Illiad that would have made it a much better experience.
>Start reading Hesiod.
>This makes me realize I didn't even get the history book I read, Homer's works or Plato's works for that matter.
>Start reading book about the presocratics philosophers.
>Even deeper realization about how much shit I missed on Plato's books, but also notice that reading Plato was essential to understanding the earlier thinkers.

Is philosophy nothing but an endless loop of realizing how clueless you were a week ago?

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