/lit/ - Literature

>>6154965
Medieval Philosophy is not necessary, but you wouldn't lose time reading a few texts. Some of them like St.August developed interesting concepts that would be considered again much later, e.g: psychoanalysis, existentialism.

The alternative would be jump to modern philosophy, then you may want to read Bacon's Novum Organum and Meditations, Discourse by Descartes.

Medieval Philosophy is not necessary, but you wouldn't lose time reading a few texts. Some philosophers (which in medieval phil. are theologists) like St.Augustine developed interesting concepts that would be considered again much later, e.g: psychoanalysis and existentialism were influenced by Augustine.

The alternative would be jump to modern philosophy, then you may want to read Bacon's Novum Organum and Meditations, Discourse by Descartes.

>>6154965
Assuming you want Western:
The Romans, especially the Stoics (Marcus Aurelius, Seneca)
Then Summa Theologica
Then early continental philosophy (Spinoza, Descartes)
Then English philosophy
You could go on but it gets crazy after this. We're talking straight spooks and political commentary written by sickly homos. Besides, literary fiction takes the reigns for the big questions.

I just saved this, I don't know anything about the subject

>>6154985
Great picture, thanks. I have saved it for future reference.
>>6154982
>>6154977
Making note of those now.

>>6154965
>What should I start reading after the Greeks?

Thomas Aquinas. Then all the famous ones obviously. Hume, Locke, Kant, Hegel etc.

>>6154994
Don't forget descartes

>>6154965
>Does anyone have that comprehensive infographic of the order in which philosophers should be read?
/r/ that as well

Presocratics: Thales, Anaximander, Pythagoras, Xenophanes, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Anaxagoras, Protagoras, Gorgias

Socrates, His Students & Their Contemporaries: Socrates, Democritus, Xenophon, Plato, Diogenes, Aristotle, Euclid, Epicurus, Zeno

Romans: Lucretius, Cicero, Seneca, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius
Neoplatonicism: Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, Proclus

Medieval: Augustine, Boethius, John the Scot, Anselm, Maimonides, Aquinas, Duns Scotus, Meister Eckhart

Early Modern: Erasmus, Machiavelli, Bruno, Descartes, Hobbs, Pascal, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, Berkeley, Hume, Rousseau, Burke, Kant, Bentham, Schiller, Fichte

Modern: Schelling, Schleiermacher, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Comte, Feuerbach, Stirner, Mill, Kierkegaard, Marx / Engels, Bakunin, Brentano, Peirce, Frege, Nietzsche, Durkheim, James, Freud, Weber, Dewey, Husserl, Moore, Jung, Saussure, Buber

Late Modern: Russell, Wittgenstein, Lukacs, Cassirer, Heidegger, Lacan, Goedel, Gramsci, Ayer, Carnap, Benjamin, Quine, Popper, Sartre, Austin, Camus, Adorno, Marcuse, de Beauvoir, Rawls

Post-Modern: Deleuze & Guattari, Fanon, Foucault, Putnam, Chomsky, Habermas, Levinas, Derrida, Rorty, Searle, Plantinga

Contemporary: Badiou, Kripke, Spivak, Parfit, Zizek, Butler, Agamben

The Greeks

>>6155500
>just realizing John the Scot and Duns Scotus aren't the same person
>mfw

http://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/2w4y80/save_marx_cambridge_university_students_fight_to/

>How could a philosophy department drop Marx? He's probably the single most influential figure in the past 200 years.

>>6156172
That's in the socialism subreddit, so obviously it's the top comment.

If the poster said specified a century rather than 200 years it would be much more credible.

>>6157119
Marx is still everywhere today. Almost every major sociologist is writing stuff based on people, who wrote based on other people, who wrote their theories based on marxism.

>>6157149
Plato is still everywhere today in terms of politics if you want to go that route. *shrug*

>>6154965
This infographic?

>>6157177
Damn.

>>6157177
that's amazing

>>6157173
That's because, unlike Marx, Plato was right about almost everything.

>>6157221
>Plato
Socrates* :-)

>>6157177
*clap*clap*

Very well made indeed.

>>6157177
Nietzsche was not an existentialist.

>>6154965
The Hellenics and the Romans.

>>6154965
ayn rand

>Boethius is considered Medieval