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16450128 No.16450128 [Reply] [Original]

I didn’t start with the greeks

>> No.16450137

>>16450128
thats fine

>> No.16450149

no one did lmao

>> No.16450150

>start with the Greeks
>get bored
>get confused
>quit books
vs
>start with whatever is most relevant and interesting to you
>love it
>master it
>seek to understand its background
>necessarily return to the Greeks once you're ready
"Start with the Greeks" is a meme.

>> No.16450212

>>16450150
This except for Kant, Hegel or Heidegger. If you started any of them without reading their influences you didn't understand them all, let alone "mastered" them.

>> No.16450217

>>16450128
does anyone? that's the very heart of the meme

>> No.16450228

>>16450212
Good point, though IMO there's not much need to read any of those writers today.

>> No.16450241

>>16450150
this. Going back to modern literature after reading the Greeks makes it a completely different experience. The Greeks are everywhere

>> No.16450248

>>16450128
I started with the dinosaurs

>> No.16450250

>>16450150
It's ok, not everyone is born superior.

>> No.16450251
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16450251

>>16450228

>> No.16450316

>>16450250
I am sure you would know, anon :)
>>16450251
You can make do without either Kant or Hegel. Existentialism as a whole is interesting, but it's also wrong, so there's little use in engaging with it.

>> No.16450507

>>16450316
Continentals > Analytics.

>> No.16450511

>>16450507
Correct.

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16450547

>took a Greek mythology course sophomore year
>read Fagles translation of Iliad and Odyssey in my own time
callin it good enough

>> No.16450989

>>16450316
>Heidegger
>Existentialist
pick one

>> No.16451032

>>16450128
pay denbts

>> No.16451033

>>16450989
>Heidegger
>not existentialist
Pick one.

>> No.16451039

>>16451033
http://pacificinstitute.org/pdf/Letter_on_%20Humanism.pdf

>> No.16451131

>>16450128
cringe

>> No.16452802

>>16450128
Yeah so what!
I started with Frank and Joe Hardy!

>> No.16452810

>he didn't start with the Akkadian-Sumerians
Literally never, ever, ever gonna make it

>> No.16452827

>he didn't emerge with the Egyptians

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16452902

>>16450128
That’s fine. Start over with the Greeks

>> No.16454634

>>16450128
No one did. Thats why you should
START
WITH
THE GREEEEEKS