/lit/ - Literature

>>19962138
Why would you start with Nietzsche? He's a very recent philosopher (i.e., he hasn't stood the test of time) and not important at all in the bigger scheme. Start with Plato ffs. Whereas Nietzsche makes you depressed, Plato will fill your entire body with light

>>18253983
This is a Plotinus thread, it is simply assumed that the readers here have already read Plato's and Aristotle's collected works, it's not even questioned. It would be like if one mathematician asks another mathematician how to get into functional analysis and the second one asks the first one if he has taken high school algebra yet.

>>17286487
Proper "comeback" would be to engage the gentleman in conversation, not sit there silently like an autist. That's literally ALL PLATO IS: dialogs in which random people run up to Socrates and try to trip him up and Socrates politely and humbly engaging with them

>>17087767
Have you actually read Aristotle? He does NOT generally base his arguments on axioms, in the same way that (e.g.) Euclid or Archimedes do. There are occasionally places where he does that, but he generally doesn't. I mean, he basically formalized the rule of induction, whereby a general fact is inferred from specific examples, e.g., "/lit/ loves asian waifus. /r9k/ loves asian waifus. /pol/ loves asian waifus. Clearly, 4chan loves asian waifus." There is nothing axiomatic about that. (And yes, obviously you could mis-use it to prove falsities. The whole point of philosophy, as opposed to mathematics, is that we're all agreeing to sit at the grownups' table now and NOT misuse induction even though we all are aware it can be misused)

Every book ever published in all languages other than Ancient Greek.