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Could this be a good guide to start with the greeks if I'm not willing to follow the /lit/ chart?

>> No.8879382
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>>8879297
Yes. Excellent choices.

>> No.8879391

>>8879297
Less pre-socratics
More Plato
Don't listen to anything >>8879382
Says on this board.

>> No.8879426

>>8879391
>More Plato
Can you read? The pic recs Plato's Dialogues, ie all of his work

>> No.8879446

jeeze to start with the greeks i thought i just had to read the dialogues

>> No.8879451
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>>8879426
Less Plato. A book dealing with all the presocratics would be enough too, but if you want to read all the source materials, enjoy.

>> No.8879452

>>8879446
4 real

>> No.8879455
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:^]

>> No.8879460

>>8879455
Everybody should read this book. Its honestly appalling that schools don't teach geometry through Euclid anymore.

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>>8879455
and this

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>>8879460
Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice In Wonderland and this book, would agree.