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15391151 No.15391151 [Reply] [Original]

Starting with the Greeks? A racist myth.

>> No.15391154

Start with the Neanderthals

>> No.15391225
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>>15391151
ur welcome

>> No.15391248

>>15391151
Derrida didn’t believe that. He strongly defended Plato from the claim that his “Phaedrus” is somehow an “immature” dialogue and Aristotle from the claim that his “Categories” are relative to the structure of Greek language

>> No.15391268

Start by asking the I-Ching where to start

>> No.15391674

>>15391151
Derrida, as a good Heideggerian, literally thought that understanding philosophy requires you to start from the Greeks. He even thought that Indian and chinese philosophy was mere thought (rather than actual philosophy) specifically because those traditions were divorced from the ancient Greek one.

>> No.15391744

>>15391225
ANYONE done this?

>> No.15393514

>>15391248
Phaedrus is the chariot metaphor dialogue. One of the most oustanding metaphors in the history of philosophy. I'd like to bash in the skull of whoever said it's immature.

>> No.15393540

>>15391151
im new here. why do people say to start with the greeks? why wouldn't you want to start as early as possible like this image >>15391225 ?

>> No.15393547

>>15391744
I've read a lot of the mesopotamian and egyptian myths and poems. Well worth it and very different from what you're probably used to

>> No.15393557

>>15393540
Because they had little influence on western culture and thought. You could argue seeing some of the mesopotamian legends in the old testament but that's really it