/lit/ - Literature

>>11162112
>hehe just read Kant bro he explains everything

not starting with the greeks is an enormous mistake

>>11162158
start with my nuts bitch

greeks were homo anyway

>I have the taste and experience necessary to declaim them.
>But nothing to recommend in their place.

Start with the Greeks if you want to actually understand philosophy. Start with Kant if you want to virtue signal on the internet.

>>11162385
Put that shit in the trash and go get laid if you don't want to die alone in a piss soaked basement.

>>11162430
I started with greeks, fuck my hot gf everyday and I live in a great appartement.

>>11162471
>I fuck an anime pillow and lie on the internet

If you start with the Greeks who do you end with?

>>11162471
I read both concurrently, fuck my wife twice a week and I live in a great house.

>>11162430
The ancients are unironically the way to go if you want to get laid.

>>11162517
The Greeks, possibly the Romans.

>>11162517
my diary desu

>>11162166
Kek

>>11162547
based

What is this fucking gatekeeping? The Greeks are obviously very foundational and influential, but here's the kicker you nerds - if you're looking to create a "foundational" worldview, you've already failed.

Sure, coming to philosophy through the Greeks can be helpful for many people, but there's no "rule book" to this shit. Some people also come to philosophy through reading a Buzzfeed article on how Infinity War represents a misinterpretation of Kant's categorical imperative. Yet others come to it through reading a copy of the Dao De Jing their hippie friend gave them for a birthday.

There's no "correct" way to get into philosophy, or even "correct" way to try and understand it. It's a process, not a goal. I thought this much was obvious.

>>11162724
There is a correct way and it's starting with the Greeks.

>read the greeks on ethics
>tfw reading contemporary ethics after

>>11162735
It is well known that the Greeks started with Deleuze.

>>11162430
Oh yeah. Real fruitful life there

>>11162724
Of course, but starting with the Greeks will give you an easier time and a more complete understanding than starting with Buzzfeed.

>>11162166
take it easy edgelord

>>11162859
>easier time
No

w-what do i start with then?

>>11162887
Yes

>>11162894
Listen very closely:
Killing yourself

>start with the Trashman

>>11162724
Let correctness(path a) > correctness(path b) if path a takes less time and gives you a more profound understanding of concepts and ideas.
Then obviosuly correctness(starting with greeks) > correctness(anything else).

The truly enlightened know that you must start with the Greek philosopher Bophades. It is said eternal understanding comes to those who grasp Bophades' nuts.