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[Anonymous No.19805483]

i've read basically every philosopher and every major philosophical text.
but i skipped plato and aristotle.
i read the republic when i was 14 but that's it.
are plato and aristotle worth reading or nah?

[Anonymous No.19805491]

Yeah.

[Anonymous No.19805500]

>>19805491
they just seem so boring, basic, and entry-level though...

[Anonymous No.19805503]

>read every philosophical text
>can't answer this himself
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[Anonymous No.19805514]

>>19805483
I think purely through commentaries alone you'd have read Aristotle's entire corpus + his students a dozen times if you actually did this.

[Anonymous No.19805538]

>>19805503
ok so no
>>19805514
yeah, plato too. doesn't really seem worth actually reading them desu. i feel the same about lacan too.

[Anonymous No.19805986]

>>19805538
Smart people are achieving things, not trying to look cool and smart on 4chan. As such, it doesn't matter what you read. You'll be spinning in a very small circle until you die.

[Anonymous No.19805989]

>>19805500
Lol.
The metaphysics by Aristotle is ranked with the Science of Logic when it comes to "entry"-level.

[Anonymous No.19806234]

>>19805989
interesting...
>>19805986
true...

[Anonymous No.19806240]

>>19805986
true... tell me something i don't already know...
>>19805989
interesting... read science of logic a while back, it's been a while

[Anonymous No.19806250]

>>19805986
true...
>>19805989
interesting...

[Anonymous No.19806255]

>>19806240
I'd admend the above comment to say you'll be 'spinning in circle a very short time until you die,' as you have a number of poor measures of health.

[Anonymous No.19806279]

Its interesting for the characters and later effect on thought.

You should read Symposium for memes about Alcibiades, Aristophanes and catamites in general. Or Timaeus for Atlantis. Other than that, maybe Gorgias and the apology of Socrates.

For Aristotle you should read Poetics for its effect on later playwrights.

[Anonymous No.19807264]

>>19805483
Ofcourse they are worth it dood... exactly these two are the best philosophers of all time (together with Kant)... why on earth would you skip exactly them ? Read the 11 books Plato wrote on his theory of ideas (he splitted it up in several (11) dialogues) and at least Aristotles metaphysics and categories... holy crap

[Anonymous No.19808789]

>>19806255
i suffer from an excess of health, as nietzsche put it. you stupid bastard

>>19806279
funny enough, i have read both the symposium and poetics, but that doesn't count as having read plato and aristotle

>>19807264
fine, ok, fine. i just should have read them already, it's embarrassing.

[Anonymous No.19808805]

>>19805483
>i've read basically every philosopher and every major philosophical text.
>but i skipped plato and aristotle
you do realize philosophy is essentially just Aristotle and Plato right?

[Anonymous No.19808816]

>>19808789
>i suffer from an excess of health, as nietzsche put it
another one of you nietzschean morons

go get some syphilis from prostitues like your idol did and hug a horse despite it contradicting the entire philosophy of the uberman

[Anonymous No.19808824]

>>19808805
meh, german idealism is more important than greek philosophy

[Anonymous No.19808836]

>>19808816
>go get some syphilis from prostitues like your idol did and hug a horse
don't mind if i do

[Anonymous No.19808857]

>>19805483
If you've actually read every major text of medieval and modern philosophy, you should already be able to answer that question yourself.

[Anonymous No.19808877]

>>19808857
sigh... should have started with the greeks. i feel like such a pseud

[Anonymous No.19809639]

OP here
finna order the nicomachean ethics, the metaphysics, and the complete works of plato off amazon.
seems like light reading desu

[Anonymous No.19809653]

wait. nevermind. i refuse to read plato or aristotle!