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I started with the Greeks now what the fuck do I do

>> No.18271505

Follow through the Romans.

>> No.18271508

>>18271502
Nothing. You weren't supposed to actually read them.

>> No.18271513

>>18271508
Basado

>> No.18271522
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>>18271502
Resume with the Romans

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>>18271522
Then, keep going through the Western Canon

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>>18271502
Guenon

>> No.18271596

>>18271557
Why is his face so weird

>> No.18271625

>>18271557
can someone explain this recent trend to me. i dont get it.
who. is. Guenon.

>> No.18271673

>>18271502
Do not read guenon and proceed to read Virgil

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>>18271596
Apologize

>> No.18271767

>>18271502
read anything else and then finally realize that plato was right all along

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>>18271676
No. Physiognomy is real and his face is super long, uncanny valley, and creepy.
I haven't read his works so maybe he was super based and redpilled as fuck but I doubt it,
because his face is really weird.

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>>18271502
>the "is" of the world contains within it the "ought" of ethos
>He who truly knows what is, knows what he wills to do in the midst of what is.
- Heidegger

You should know where to go after the Greeks.

>> No.18271828

>>18271781
Long face -> high intelligence. It creeps you out because higher intellects do that. Pathos of distance.

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End with the Greeks

>> No.18271880

>>18271502
Do the Romans, Church Fathers and Neoplatonists.
Follow all the way through into the Medievals and Scholastics if you're feeling ambitious.
It'll come somewhat full circle with the Renaissance after that. Then the rest is largely garbage aside from the Counter-Reformation, Russian literature and Nouvelle.

>> No.18271899

>>18271526
>putting Phaedrus much later
woke as fuck

>> No.18272098

>>18271526
Surprised Voltaire isn't on here. He was one of the first real authors I read when I was just getting into serious literature.

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>>18271828
Idk man... Nietzsche looked pretty normal...

>> No.18272218

>>18271625
giga-newfag. lurk moar

>> No.18272221

Any suggestions for books about the presocratics?

>> No.18272234

>>18271502
Skip the Romans and the medievals. Go straight to Renaissance science.

>> No.18272426

>>18272210
>Nietzsche looked pretty normal..
lol he looks autistic as fuck without his mustache.

>> No.18272479

>>18271526
There is no way a student can read this much material in the span of four years let alone understand it.

>> No.18272497

>>18271526
Sounds like a lot of time being frittered away on Oxford and Penguin classics.

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>>18271502
Romans suck, don't do Romans. They have nothing with real philosophy. Except Plotinus and Boethius. Marcus Aurelius etc are for Rennesaince pussies, who were rather practising their eloquence on Latin, than philosophy. Stoicism is for pussies too. After Plotinus and Boethius go directly to the medievals: St. Augustine, Aquinas, Ockham, Eckhart, Grosseteste, Abelard and the Bible for sure. Then proceed with Rennesaince since like Bruno and so on. Then come back and I will give you another advice on Rennesaince.

>> No.18272523

>>18272520
>Then proceed with Rennesaince since like Bruno and so on.
I mean science*

>> No.18272768

>>18272479
It works out to less than two books a month...

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>>18271508
This. How could you possibly have nothing to do after having the Trivium, Organon, and Platonic schema ready to conquer the world with? Fuck man I'd be a crypto jillionaire by the time I finish the Greeks and I'd have a select choice of a multitude of crafts as a hobby.