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7056198 No.7056198 [Reply] [Original]

I started with the greeks.
>read history of philosophy (bryan Magee) as a prereq,
>"Mama Mia, spicy meatball, gotta have more"
>crack open the illiad cuz the mythology book is taken at my library
>mfw when the intro tells me the whole plot of the trojan war and the iliad
>mfw I'm supposed to suffer through homer so I can understand philosophy
>mfw I don't actually care about the greeks and homers prose aside from the relevance to philosophy.

bros I already know the characters, can't I just read plato and aristotle already?

Also, what would you say is your favorite branch of phiosophy?

>> No.7056213

>>7056198
Don't ever do what /lit/ tells you. Must important of all: don't bother reading Pynchon or DFW.

This one disappointment you've met with while following meme advices is pretty much characteristic of any future result you will get if you listen to /lit/-any board on 4chan, even-about any topic.

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7056265

>>7056213
thanks bud, I'll just pimp around and follow the chronological order. If I miss any references I'll just google it ffs. I admit i'm interested in DFW sorry lad i'm a professional memer!

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>>7056198
the point is not to begin with the greeks, but to finish by them

>> No.7056726

How do you not know the plot of the Iliad before reading it? Are you literally uneducated?

>> No.7056787

>>7056726

This tbh it's really basic stuff

>> No.7056796

>>7056198
Homer is not essential for studying philosophy, but it's damn useful to elucidate you on the mindset of the Greeks, as well as being a bloody good read in of itself.
The two works you should really start with are "The Pre-Socratic Philosophers" and Hessiod's Theogeny. After that, the three main dialogues - Euthyphro, Republic and Phaedo. from there, Aristotle, principally Physics, Politics and Nicomachean Ethics.

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7056801

>>7056198
>homers prose
>homer
>prose

>> No.7056804

>>7056801
Glad someone caught that.

>> No.7056819

How do you people fall for this, seriously...