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10631998

Is he worth reading? Anonymous Fri Feb 2 22:59:59 2018 No.10631998 [Reply] [Original]

Where should I start?

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 2 23:00:53 2018 No.10632005 >>10631998 >Is he worth reading? Yes >Where should I start? That's not how pre-socratics work

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 2 23:16:06 2018 No.10632072 >>10632005 How do they work? I'm a newbie on /lit/ , just want to be smart like u guys

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 3 05:19:55 2018 No.10633084 >>10632072 he only has one "book" there's nowhere else to start

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 3 06:33:36 2018 No.10633260 lel there no start with him. theres only a bunch of his fragments commented over and over through the ages.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 3 12:44:13 2018 No.10634472 >>10631998 read "The art and thought of Heraclitus" by Charles Khan.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 3 13:21:06 2018 No.10634645 >read his fragments >fall in love with his philosophy >read then Plato's Cratyle >realize that The Obscure was a hack How can I like him again, /lit/?

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 3 13:25:01 2018 No.10634669 >>10634645 he wasn't a hack, dialectics are the firmament of reality get good, realize that platon was the REAL sophist