/lit/ - Literature

>>19113787
And the polytheists answered it long before the Christians by positing The Good. And this is superior since they do not prescribe personhood to it with all its scheming, plotting, choosing, and decreeing attributes which comes with that.

But yes, it was very cute and truly profound by the Christians to point toward this Good and say its YHWH.

>>18981084
Yes.

In a previous thread one of you guys gave a recommendation on how to get into Platonism. First by reading "Preliminary Considerations" in The Essence of Truth by Heidegger and then moving on to reading the Parmenides chapter of Ericl Perl's "Thinking Being". Now I've done that but I've forgotten where I was supposed to go next. Anyone remember the study guide or is the person in this thread too?

>>17995972
Aquinas only ever gave good arguments for a generic theism, and that had always been proactively refuted by the Greek polytheist monists(PBUT).

In the Neoplatonic academies this is how you studied Plato. First some lectures on Plato's life. Followed by 10 questions that were to be answered.
>1 What sort of philosophy is found in Plato?
>2 Why did Plato believe it was his duty to write down his philosophy?
>3 Why did he employ a literary form in his dialogues?
>4 What are the elements of the dialogues?
>5 What is the source of the titles of the dialogues?
>6 What is the principle of division of the dialogues?
>7 In what manner ar the topics of the dialogues introduced?
>8 What are the criteria for determining the aim of the dialogues?
>9 What is the order of the dialogues?
>10 What is the manner of teaching in the dialogues?

After that these dialogues were read in this order: Alcibiades I, Gorgias, Phaedo, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, Phaedrus, Symposium, Philebus, Timaeus, Parmenides.

Yes, The Republic was not included in the syllabus.