What's the point of starting with the greeks if you're not interested in the history of philosophy?

[Anonymous No.23027047]

[Anonymous No.23027095]

>>23027047
To understand what other philosophers are talking about when they reference them. Philosophy is basically talking shit about previous philosopher.

Why do you want to read philosophy?

[Anonymous No.23027106]

Converges with other interests like psychology, phenomenology, theology

[Anonymous No.23027109]

>>23027106
Meant for
>>23027095

[Anonymous No.23027130]

>>23027047
Why wouldn't you want to start with the Greeks?

[Anonymous No.23027138]

>>23027047
Because their philosophies are timeless and transcend generation

[Anonymous No.23027162]

>>23027130
They don't interest apart a few like Parmenides, Pyrrho, Plotinus

[Anonymous No.23027172]

>>23027162
Interest me*

[Anonymous No.23027173]

The advice shouldn't be 'start with the Greeks', but 'start and end with the Greeks', because odds are all philosophy you read after that is derivative nonsense and derivative derivative nonsense.

[Anonymous No.23027174]

Philosophers like Plato, Aristotle, Heracleitus, and Parmenides are profiftable to read because they reflect certain modes of thought which exist in every person's mind. The notions of "eternal change and Logos", "generation and essence", "matter and form" already exist on an unconscious level in every human mind, and reading the greeks is seeing them brought out into the open, as active ideas to play with, even if only for the reader to criticize. This largely ended with the enlightenment, which was dedicated largely to the logical analysis of the sources of these intuitions.

[Anonymous No.23027432]

>>23027162
I mean if that is what interests you then you may not feel any need to read the others.

[Anonymous No.23029117]

Bump

[Anonymous No.23029325]

>>23027047
Because the Greeks like Plato and Aristotle had a lot to say that is still relevant today, in addition to >>23027095

[Anonymous No.23029331]

>>23027047
If you don’t want to read the Greeks you don’t have to. All of us over here who aren’t shithead know it all manbabies will continue on with the great conversation the proper way.

[Anonymous No.23029944]

>>23027047
because you'll realize they perfected philosophy with Homer and there's no need to read anyone else

[Anonymous No.23029951]

>>23027047
Still philosophy.

[Anonymous No.23031755]

>>23029951
History is fan fiction