/lit/ - Literature

>>21031071
First read through his complete works and force yourself to do it by reading every word out loud. 90% will make no sense but you'll occasionally experience ineffable glimpses of visions.

Then read all of Plotinus, Augustine, Dionysius, and Thomas (including all Thomas's commentaries on Aristotle).

And you'll have to read the Bible somewhere in there, as a prereq for Thomas and Augustine.

Finally go back and re-read Aristotle, a 2nd time, for real this time.

(Of course this assumes you've already read all of Plato beforehand.)

>>18267192
Plato/Socrates were 100% right when they suggested that composing new songs should be outlawed and that poets should be permanently banned from the republic