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Anonymous Wed Apr 15 15:25:17 2020 No.15106402 [Reply] [Original]

Everyone says you should start with philosophy by reading Plato first, but to what extent?
I’ve read the trial and death of Socrates and the Republic, and I think I get the gist really.
Socrates basically exposes the limits of human knowledge through his questioning. There are little nuggets here and there but I think the big idea is the mostly abstract aim of Socratic questioning, right?
Am I ready to move on to Aristotle yet?

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 15 15:27:59 2020 No.15106419 File: 4 KB, 250x250, 1586148377380s.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15106402 you do not get the gist. Read everything and then commentary. Jesus Christ are you guys too busy to read?

>>	Harmodius !HeLLasW2K. Wed Apr 15 15:30:05 2020 No.15106430 No, you should start with the pre-socratics.

Anonymous Wed Apr 15 15:30:47 2020 No.15106435

>>15106402
NO PLEASE DO NOT MAKE THIS MISTAKE. Read the later dialogues (Theaetetus, Cratylus, Phaedrus, Philebus, Sophist, Statesman, Laws, Parmenides, Timaeus). They are the heart of Platonic metaphysics, the philosophy which comes to dominate the West and shape the Church. Also read Proclus, Damascius, Ficino, Syrianus, Simplicius and Porphyry's commentaries on the dialogues since you almost certainly do not understand them fully. The Socratic method is literally the tip of the iceberg, its hardly even Platonic.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 15 15:31:13 2020 No.15106440 File: 35 KB, 263x400, 993740A5-AB03-4F3D-BFB9-85758A9BA05C.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15106430 I did that already

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 15 15:39:46 2020 No.15106509 File: 67 KB, 720x644, 1D208EC9-3A9A-4D60-8137-E1EAF6D17585.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15106435 Thanks anon I genuinely appreciate your post

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