If you really want to study and understand philosophy, do yourself a favor and start with Homer. You're welcome.

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Anonymous Mon Sep 28 11:16:22 2020 No.16463542 [Reply] [Original]

If you really want to study and understand philosophy, do yourself a favor and start with Homer.

You're welcome.

Anonymous Mon Sep 28 12:01:30 2020 No.16463822
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Excellent post and 100% true. All the early Greek philosophers, especially Plato and Aristotle, are responding to ideas first posed in the Iliad and the Odyssey. Homer's depictions of the gods are a major point of contention in the Republic, especially.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 12:06:11 2020 No.16463851 >to understand philosophy read poetry okay my dude

>>	Lon𝖊 Int𝖊ll𝖊ctu𝖆l !xVZee/J6YQ Mon Sep 28 12:07:41 2020 No.16463861 >>16463542 Start and end with Homer. There is no worthwhile literature after the Odyssey.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 16:08:48 2020 No.16465375 File: 56 KB, 160x178, 1599084035783.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16463851 Yes

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 28 17:20:36 2020 No.16465978 Based http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/porphyry_cave_of_nymphs_02_translation.htm

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