/lit/ - Literature

>>22609469
Yes. There's no use living out the rest of this already unsalvageable lifespan. Might as well rope right now.

>>22609469
Why not read him now? I started reading him when I was 20

Didn't Plato start philosophy at 29?

>>22609469
I’ll be 20 in 2 months. I need a game plan to read the rest of Plato in that time so that I can say to my shitass kids one day “I read all Plato before I was 20.”

>>22609469
I haven’t read anything. That doesn’t stop me from posting here every fucking day.

>>22609761
Plato only wrote 36 dialogues (55 if you count each book of the Republic and Laws as separate) so that shouldn’t take you too long to complete as each one can be read well within a day, if not within an hour. If you look up the Thrasyllan groupings of dialogues a good portion are likely spurious.

>>22609768
This is a good plan as long as you already know Ancient Greek.

Y-you do know Ancient Greek, right anon? It‘d be brutal if you had to cut your learning time down to half at least to speed through learning that.

>>22609469
>It is, besides, a great drawback on his mastery over philosophical subjects that he has obviously not had the advantage of a regular scholastic education: he has not read Plato in his youth (which most likely was only his misfortune), but neither has he read Kant in his manhood (which is his fault).
Thomas De Quincey on William Hazlitt.

>>22609761
why wouldn't you just lie about this?
There is no chance they will even care.

My friends and I were all into Greek and Nietzche in middle school and early junior high. It's useful to be able to examine your life and why you do things, but once you're living it things become more practical.

>>22609761
>OP wants to read it all by 20 so he can brag about it to his kids he doesn't have

I don't know, you would have had to complete it by 12 to impress me, but future generations will read less, so I'm sure it's fine to say you did it by 21 before you could drink.

>>22609469
I'm 23 and only read Republic. It was boring and stupid as shit

>>22609469
If you haven't studied at private American boarding school in the 50s than yes, it is over. But you are not alone in this peril brother, all that is left is to larp, learn Latin and read greeks

>>22611046
Pic related. Your mistake probably was that you haven't read every existing presocratic

>>22609469
it is over for you
people die and life ends at 20

>>22609469
I would reccommend not reading any philosophy until you're at least in your 30s.

>>22609469
On the contrary, be happy that you didn't waste your time reading a complete retard

>>22611088
That’s a tad excessive

>>22609469
Start now or die with an unexamined life.