Do I need to read anything before I read literary classical authors like Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Joyce, all the cliche 'smart' authors that get featured in liberal arts courses? Will you not get everything if you read them blind?

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Anonymous Tue Feb 19 19:29:52 2019 No.12627844 [Reply] [Original]

Do I need to read anything before I read literary classical authors like Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Joyce, all the cliche 'smart' authors that get featured in liberal arts courses?

Will you not get everything if you read them blind?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 19 19:30:34 2019 No.12627850 >>12627844 just read them you son of a bitch

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 19 19:32:03 2019 No.12627856 >>12627844 Yes you need to start with the Greeks, progress to the Romans, go through the medieval period, the early modern period, the enlightenment, etc.

Anonymous Tue Feb 19 19:39:33 2019 No.12627875
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>>12627856
I'm stuck reading Plato's complete works, specifically at Sophist, and am being a pussy. Please help me understand this:

>Further if that WHICH IS is not a whole by possessing that as a characteristic, but rather just is THE WHOLE itself, THAT WHICH IS will turn out to be less than itself
>And because it's deprived of itself, THAT WHICH IS will NOT BEING, according to that account
>And everything will be more than one. since THAT WHICH IS and THE WHOLE will each have its own separate nature

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 20 00:39:38 2019 No.12629061 >>12627875 lol

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 20 04:12:15 2019 No.12629671 >>12627875 >oh haha Plato is old, we’ve all made it past him. Wasn’t he btfo by (insert later faggot)? Guess again. It might help to read the Stanford wiki and/or Plato’s Seventh Letter.

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