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

>> No.18365279

>>18365274
The greeks

>> No.18365283

>>18365274
your mom

>> No.18365284

>>18365279
You never truly finish the Greeks

>> No.18365289

Guenon (PBUH)

>> No.18365301
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18365301

The bible

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18365334

Proofreading theyself

>> No.18365938

The Americans

>> No.18365992

>>18365279
>>18365284
This.

>> No.18365998

>>18365274
Contemporary Philosophy

>> No.18366003

starting with the greeks to reaching a point of developing your taste
common sense loser

>> No.18366006

>>18365274
My diary desu.

>> No.18366125

>>18365274
The French

>> No.18366165
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18366165

>>18365274
Start with the Sumerians
Grapple with the Greeks
Resume with the Romans
Finish with the Finnish

Avoid the Anglos

>> No.18366180

>>18366165
That pictures sure gives credence to a Hermione de-feet!

>> No.18366181

>>18365334
But thyself knows nothing... Did you not read the GReeks?

>> No.18366184

>>18365279
fpbp

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18366194

>>18365274
This is the absolute Endgame. And you're gonna need everything you've read up to that point to understand it.

>> No.18366196

>>18366181
Who said this?

>> No.18366300

>>18365289
this, also the Indians

>> No.18367392

>>18366165
I wish that was what Harry Potter turned out to be in the end, it would have filtered its entire audience

>> No.18367442

>>18367392
Imagine the reaction

>> No.18367469

>>18367442
Well considering the fans are mostly overgrown children living in a fantasy world, to have that escapist fantasy be crushed and rowling revealed Harry Potter to be some schizo junkie living in a Liverpool or Manchester slum... my guess is that their reaction would be, very negatively vocal, and extremely amusing

>> No.18367470

>>18365274
the channers

>> No.18367558

>>18365274
Alasdair MacIntyre

>> No.18367599

>>18365274
Native american spiritualism

>> No.18367690

>>18366196
Socrates, sweatie.

>> No.18367717

>>18367690
Did Plato put those words into his mouth?
Everyone attributes “know thyself” to him though its simply what’s on the Delphic oracle. Why didn’t he know himself?

Anonymous has this exact problem, you know?

>> No.18367846

Gardner is the final boss

>> No.18368621

>>18366165
Putas, Harry

>> No.18368638

>>18365279
This.

>> No.18369008

william blake

>> No.18369018

>>18367846
I think you meant RC Waldun

>> No.18369019

>>18365274
u never stop

>> No.18369046
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>>18365274
>not who, but what.
A sense of superiority, the ability to write endless inconsequential dross on any topic, and none of the answers you were looking for.

>> No.18369047

>>18365274
>cioran
any other answer is wrong

>> No.18369053

>>18365301
>Completely unaware of Buddhist scholasticism.

Nice one cunt.

>> No.18369057

The end game is to possess a system of reading, such that any text can be read.

>> No.18369066

>>18365274
Dem cheeks.

>> No.18369139

>>18365274
You start with the Greeks, you go through the entire philosophy until today, then you realize they were right all along, and you go back to the Greeks.

>> No.18369146

>>18365274
You never finish

>> No.18369181

>>18369146
Always finish on the Bach, never on Debussy

>> No.18369261

>>18365274

With yourself.

>> No.18369273

>>18365279
based

>> No.18369330

>>18366165
Like the pic (very novel, eh). Shame the artist is such a cunt.

>> No.18369704

Your left hand.

>> No.18371034
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>>18365274

Brandon Sanderson

>> No.18371066

>>18366165
Finland sucks.

>> No.18371084

>>18365274
The blacks

>> No.18371086

>>18365274
ur tombstone

>> No.18371455

Call of the Crocodile

>> No.18371462

>>18365279
And we’re done here.

>> No.18371464

>>18365274
The Greeks are full circle.

>> No.18371602

>>18365274
The most recently published book on philosophy on the day of your death obviously.

>> No.18371651

Why is /lit/ so western-centric? Fuck the Greeks; start with the Chinese instead.

>> No.18371658

>>18367717
it's not knowing thyself it's that you know nothing, have you not read apology?

>> No.18371669

>>18365301
This is a joke, right?

>> No.18371687

Baudrillard

>> No.18372254
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18372254

>>18366165
>Finish with the Finnish

>> No.18372499

>>18365274
persian magi

>> No.18372503
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18372503

The 'Jeets.

>> No.18372522

You don't finish. Books are still being written, aren't they?

>> No.18372617

>>18369047
t. pussy ass white boy

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>>18365279

>> No.18373470

>>18365274
No one has finished, so far. You will have to find out yourself.

>> No.18373518

>>18366194
God i wish i could read Calasso, I can probably manage to read just his non fiction stuff

>> No.18374135

>>18367717
kill yourself

>> No.18374155

>>18365301
this but unironically

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>>18367392
Holy fuck that would be 139 tier.

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>>18365274
Anyone or anything you want. Literally everything after the greeks are just footnotes

>> No.18374464

>>18367392
>>18367469
Do anons know of any good books like this?

>> No.18374465

>>18374464
Isn't that kind of the route The Magicians series took?

>> No.18374478

>>18365274
TripleO

>> No.18374518

>>18374464
Evangelion is the only highly mainstream media I can think of that took a sharp turn into transcendental artistic content alienating most of its audience.

>> No.18374571

>>18374464
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run

>> No.18375142

>>18374465
>>18374518
>>18374571
Guess I'll have to write one myself.

>> No.18375162

>>18365274
Nietzsche, probably.

>> No.18375168

>>18365274
a bullet

>> No.18375182

Probably F. Gardner.

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18375206

>>18365274
Evola. Then you're hailed as the new Fuhrer and the revolution begins.

>> No.18375224

>>18375206
Not really: Evola, then you become an esoterist and fall down the rabbit hole until you become archmage.

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>>18375224
Who do you read then that allows you to bring all your arcane and esoteric knowledge into the real world so you can demolish the current world order and reinstate an age of heroes?

>> No.18375241

>>18375236
Why do that when you have long surpassed Evola and you are trying to spiritually escape the wheel.

>> No.18375242

>>18375236
We in the Kali Yuga, nothing we can do other than within ourselves.

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>>18375242
>>18375241
Fuck Kali Yuga, fuck the cycle. I will surpass this and force fate to open her hands to me and grant me divine will over this world.

>> No.18376829

>>18365279
U mean icycalm?

>> No.18376847

>>18368621
kek

>> No.18376851

>>18375242
we are not in the kali yuga

>> No.18376856

>>18376851
samefag but we are in treta yuga

>> No.18376861

>>18376851
We are in the Kali yuga

>> No.18377010

>>18369181
Bach is the beginning and the end. Alfa and omega

>> No.18377015

>>18371651
>Chinese
Start with the Mayas

>> No.18377999

>>18368621
lol