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Started with the Greeks with picrel.
What am I in for?

>> No.18287739
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I used to think picrel was related to incels.
Made a lot of 4Chan posts very confusing.

>> No.18287749

Start with The First Days of Socrates

>> No.18287761

>>18287749
No. Already started with the Last Days. No going back.

>> No.18287806

Make sure to watch Michael Sugrues lectures on Plato anon, they are great

>> No.18287851

>>18287806
Will do anon.

>> No.18288006

Is starting with Kant -> Analytic philosophers just as viable? I imagine it'd be more rewarding since analytic philosophy has more refined logics and understanding of language and argument. Also, I don't know any Greek or Latin ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

>> No.18288352

>>18288006
bump

>> No.18288721

>>18287733
You fucked up, anon. You should've started with the presocratics.

>> No.18289134

>>18287733
Read it and find out.

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>>18287733
A discussion of the nature of corruption & purity, knowledge & ignorance, innocence & guilt, the duty of men and philosophers, the afterlife, and the soul. Also an engaging story with a protagonist so inspired that he has never become irrelevant. Not many books make my cry anon, but I did cry at Phaedo the first time I read it.

Also it's not that long and it's broken into digestible episodes; you could have read the whole book in the time this thread has been up.

>> No.18289300

>>18288006
Starting with Kant with no knowledge of the problems he is responding to is probably a bad move. If you want to skip the greeks and just go to the moderns, start with Descartes, Spinoza, Leibnitz, Locke, Bacon, and Hume

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>>18288006
many people on this board will tell you this is a bad idea. this will not give you a general understanding of philosophy. that said, if you're really interested in epistemology, or are only interested in philosophy because you're a mathematical logic major or something, then I guess it's reasonable. Kant is very hard and somewhat idiosyncratic, so at the very least it may be worth following something like pic rel. you don't need to read the greeks to understand kant, but the greeks have no prerequisites and will help you learn a little about philosophy before you tackle kant. also it's not really true that analytic philosophy has "more refined logics and understanding of language and argument." it's just a different understanding.

there was a thread like this a couple months ago:
> warosu . org / lit / thread / 17336834