/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.18695695]

Enough.

[Anonymous No.18695716]

>>18695695
If you are trying to start with the Greeks this aint it

First of all, you gotta go with Homer
Second of all, those books on the picture are in English
This ain't it chief

[Anonymous No.18695726]

>>18695716
reading list gate keeping
the best kind of gate keeping

[Anonymous No.18696216]

>>18695695
>caring about gay bullshit

[Anonymous No.18696228]

>books people buy to fit in on /lit/

[Anonymous No.18696253]

>>18696216
>>18696228
>nu-/lit/

[Anonymous No.18696258]

>>18695695
What's the best format for a dense reference volume of collected writing/essays? It seems that 6.4” × 9” is the most common (both books in OPs picture follow this format more or less: Plato: Complete Works is 6.5” × 9.25” and The Complete Works of Aristotle is 6.4” × 8.8” ), but there are always outliers (Josephus: Complete Works and The Complete Works of Philo are both 6.36” × 9.56”)

What are you guys’ thoughts?

[Anonymous No.18696261]

>>18695695
its working...

[Anonymous No.18696269]

>>18696261
only 1 and a half days of work and I have already changed someone's entire life.

[Anonymous No.18696274]

>>18695695

[Anonymous No.18696275]

>>18696253
nu/lit/ buys every book they're "supposed" to, then takes a picture and uploads it to their "social media". same as dumb bitches on "booktok" and "booktube". evaluate yourself.

[Anonymous No.18696278]

>>18695695
Do people ever read the whole Summa?

[Anonymous No.18696295]

>>18696278
I got this but I haven't read it yet

[Anonymous No.18696299]

>>18696274
The Basic Works is pretty close to complete honestly. Has like the whole Physics, Metaphysics, and Ethics, and most of the Organon and big chunks of the other works. There's not much of else you need but you've got enough of what's left included anyway. No idea about the Plato Reader though. Sounds like it lacks more.

[Anonymous No.18696309]

>>18695716
>This ain't it chief
>>>/reddit/

[Anonymous No.18696326]

https://youtu.be/T4G-8ZmM4H4

[Anonymous No.18696335]

Are there any more of these collections for major thinkers. I have collected works of Spinoza and Descartes, but is there one for Hume or any other major thinker.

[Anonymous No.18696363]

>>18696326
i cant hear shit over the water and wind what a dumbass

[Anonymous No.18696365]

Imagine still being stuck in Aristotelian thinking.

[Anonymous No.18696367]

>>18696335
They do them sometimes for more modern people, like Peirce, James, Russell, etc.

[Sneed !jjVySneed6 No.18696382]

>>18696367
Peirce collections are very incomplete, but there are lots of online projects trying to make some decent stuff.

[Anonymous No.18696385]

>>18696299
Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo, Symposium, Phaedrus, and Republic.
so no, not complete. but good enough for anyone who might get memed into buying pic related in the op.

[Anonymous No.18696403]

>>18696385
I have the Plato Complete Works volume myself, I think it's only like 50 dollars? Was when I got it. My professor asked us to buy it for his Plato class so I did. But I have the Basic Works of Aristotle instead of the two volume set. Again, same professor asked us to buy it for his Aristotle class. The thing with Plato is that all the lesser known dialogues sound very interesting in their own right, like the Timaeus and the Parmenides and the Sophist and the Philebus and so forth, but I'm not sure about the Aristotle stuff left out of the Basic Works.

[Anonymous No.18696427]

>>18696275
>buys
>takes a picture and uploads it
to whom are you talking?

[Anonymous No.18696531]

I plan on reading all of Plato's dialogues but I'm really not interested in Aristotle.

[Anonymous No.18696630]

>>18696253
everything on /lit/ is unironically shit

[Anonymous No.18696650]

Complete works of Plato I can get behind. But why in the fuck would you read the complete works of Aristotle? It's fucking 3000 pages or some shit. Holy fuck. Only scholars have read half this shit.

[Anonymous No.18696655]

>>18696650
people buy these things as ornaments. it's very feminine behavior

[Anonymous No.18696657]

>>18695716
Faggot

[Anonymous No.18696757]

>>18696531
You should at least read his nicomachean ethics and poetics.

[Anonymous No.18696798]

>>18695695
>>18696531
I've been meaning to start on Aristotle but holy shit Organon looks like the most excruciating mental rigor to get through.

[Anonymous No.18696856]

>>18696798
Totally worth it. The Categories is not bad, but it is utterly mind bending at first even if you have a background in philosophy
>substance is that which can receive contraries

so based.

[Anonymous No.18696862]

>>18696630
What more could you expect form a board whose greatest achievement is unironically Big Chungus

[Anonymous No.18698198]

>>18696757
I'll read nicomachean ethics I suppose, since I already own the book, but it looks so incredibly dry, and frankly I'm not interested in philosophy as a whole as much as I am in the philosophy of religion/spirituality, which is why I like Plato so much in the first place.

[Anonymous No.18698228]

>>18695695
Plato sounds like it could be an OS or something.

[Anonymous No.18698241]

i feel the same degree of dismay seeing those Aristotle's on a book shelf than I do seeing a tattoo on a woman's arm.

[Anonymous No.18698508]

>>18696403
>lesser known dialogues
those 4 are literally Plato's most important dialogues

[Anonymous No.18698928]

>>18696403
>I have the Plato Complete Works volume myself, I think it's only like 50 dollars?
It should be less since it's obviously free of right.

[Anonymous No.18698980]

Okay if people meme buying that Plato edition what edition should I get? I've already read homer and I want to read Plato. I was going to buy the complete works, do people meme it because contrarianism or something? Or that people get it and never read it?

[Anonymous No.18699002]

>>18698980
It's only a meme if it ends up sitting unread on your bookshelf to make you feel smart in front of your friends. If you're actually going to read it, of course get the complete works. Much more convenient and cheaper than the alternative.

[Anonymous No.18699661]

>>18696650
I have some large collections of work that I know I'll never fully read. I like the fact that I have it incase something reignites my interest in a subject. Plato's complete works is a great example. I'll read a few dialogs and allow myself to reflect on it instead of just powering through the whole book. I get more out of it this way.

[Anonymous No.18699913]

>>18699661
Yeah I agree with that in regards to Plato's complete works since there's a lot of rather brief sections that are easy to read through and think about like you said, but with Aristotle it seems like the book will last you a couple lives if that's how you read it. Such a big tomb.

[Anonymous No.18700016]

>>18696427
/stack/
/shelf/
/haul/
etc

[Anonymous No.18700085]

>>18698980
If you want to read all of Plato in modern translations in a physical book format for a good price, OP's edition suits you well. The biggest drawback is that the introductions and notes are somewhat barren and at times unhelpful for the casual reader. Compare for example the 2 pages of introduction and a few pages worth of notes for the Republic with the OWC edition that offers 50 pages of introduction and 80 pages full of notes. If you really want to dive deep into these works introduction and notes can be pretty helpful but you could of course also just substitute them with other sources.

I'd say if you want to read all of Plato go for OP's edition and if you just want to read the greatest hits, buy single editions of the dialogues. Or buy single editions of all of the dialogues if you don't care about space/money.

[Anonymous No.18700305]

>>18696295
>I haven't read
You're not alone

[Anonymous No.18700344]

>>18696299
Is what remains of the Organon in The Basic Works satisfactory? I have a copy of it because it's cheaper than the complete Aristotle and I have no interest in reading everything Aristotle wrote. I'm quite happy with the collection overall but I'll be a little disappointed if the Organon is significantly lacking.

[Anonymous No.18701696]

>>18698228
PlatOS
>>18698980
I didn't meme buy it since my professor required it for his Plato class, but yes go buy the Cooper volume. It's the standard complete set of Plato dialogues and then some more (apocryphal but regarded as authentic in ancient times by Platonists). It's good. My issue with smaller collections is that Plato has very interesting ideas in his lesser-read dialogues.

[Anonymous No.18701706]

>>18698508
And they're unfortunately not read by people new to Plato. People new to Plato read the Republic at most, otherwise it's very basic stuff like the Euthyphro/Apology/Crito/Phaedo quartet or the Meno and Symposium. Even when I took a class on Plato we only read half the Parmenides and the Sophist. They're very underread outside of Plato fans and scholars, which is a shame.

[Anonymous No.18701710]

>>18695695
start with the sumerians

[Anonymous No.18701855]

>>18696335
Cambridge's translations of Kant's works by Guyer and Wood

[Anonymous No.18702603]

>>18696278
summa whole dick