I've been reading a lot of Presocratic philosophy, mostly about Thales and Parmenides. If you were an ancient Greek philosopher, what would your name be?

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Anonymous Mon Sep 24 19:59:29 2012 No.3005958 [Reply] [Original]

I've been reading a lot of Presocratic philosophy, mostly about Thales and Parmenides.

If you were an ancient Greek philosopher, what would your name be?

>>	Screwtape !!tdBUE9PLvpz Mon Sep 24 20:11:30 2012 No.3005989 File: 126 KB, 488x659, 1343026675435.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Thalattatines

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 20:12:30 2012 No.3005992 Empedocles, cuz I'm a total boss.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 20:20:03 2012 No.3006020 >>3005989 >Thalattatines Not Screwtapocles? I am disappointed in you, son.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 20:21:03 2012 No.3006022 Ishygddamese

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 20:24:04 2012 No.3006034 Anonymarchus

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 20:25:04 2012 No.3006038 My name doesn't matter. I'd say screw you to those barbarians and move to India, the true cradle of philosophy.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 20:27:50 2012 No.3006045 Flâneuranides. I'd chill mostly with Aristippus and the Cyrenaic gang.

Anonymous Mon Sep 24 20:28:50 2012 No.3006048
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>>3006038
>implying that the Mediterranean coast of Asia Minor wasn't the only meaningful birthplace of philosophy as we know it today

Thales, the Anax-gang, Xenophanes, Heraclitus, even Parmenides just to name a few

>India
Dohohoho

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 20:31:36 2012 No.3006058 >>3006034 I like this one. Personally I'd go for Rustlecrates or Jimmicles.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 20:33:36 2012 No.3006067 >>3006048 >India >Dohohoho >has never read the Upanishads

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 20:34:36 2012 No.3006070 >>3006048 >Asia Minor >Elea Might want to check that geography there.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 20:35:36 2012 No.3006080 >>3006070 >he still thinks Parmenides was actually from Elea >laughing_grad_students.jpg

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 20:36:36 2012 No.3006084 File: 490 KB, 449x401, Girls.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3006070 >implying implications about Miletus

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 20:37:36 2012 No.3006086 >>3006080 >Parmenides And Xenophanes.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 20:41:37 2012 No.3006099 File: 17 KB, 250x250, 1344829586415.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3006086 He's called Xenophanes of Colophon for a reason, you know.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 20:46:41 2012 No.3006108 >>3006099 He may have been born there, but was his philosophy born there?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 20:53:40 2012 No.3006119 >>3006108 good point

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 20:57:41 2012 No.3006130 >act like a buddhist monk >insta respect from the greeks

>>	Screwtape !!tdBUE9PLvpz Mon Sep 24 20:58:41 2012 No.3006134 File: 163 KB, 464x274, edna-krabappoly.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3006020 I think I was making a pun on seamen but idk how well it came out if I get a do-over though I'm definitely doing Edna Krabappeles

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 21:12:31 2012 No.3006164 I already have a Greek name, I can't think of anything else.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 21:15:31 2012 No.3006168 Trolliolus of Sinope

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 21:25:47 2012 No.3006177 File: 77 KB, 258x360, 1344982690619.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3006168 sinoper no sinoping

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 21:38:06 2012 No.3006196 >>3006164 It's probably a shit modern Greek name though like Papadopoulous or something. You can do better.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 22:03:14 2012 No.3006254 >>3006196 Believe it or not, my name is Socrates.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 22:07:13 2012 No.3006261 File: 11 KB, 187x166, 1344907513558.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3006254 Man, you must have faced some SHIT in grade school.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 22:10:13 2012 No.3006268 Jarbles, the Cretan.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 22:10:13 2012 No.3006269 >not reading Heraclitus >2012

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 22:12:14 2012 No.3006271 >>3006254 Is it pronounced Sock-rat-eez, or So-crates?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 22:12:14 2012 No.3006273 >>3006269 >Heraclitus >Her Clitus yanks b wanked

Anonymous Mon Sep 24 22:14:15 2012 No.3006276
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>>3006269
>Homer deserved to be expelled from the contests and flogged, and Archilochus likewise.

>Most men's teacher is Hesiod. They are sure hey knew most things - a man who could not recognize day and night; for they are one.

My sides. Heraclitus master race.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 22:16:15 2012 No.3006277 Skepticles I would go around to other philosophers' lectures and interrupt with "You can't prove that!" and "How do you know?" And generally be a huge ass.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 22:18:15 2012 No.3006280 >>3006261 Some, sure. But it's something people don't even care after a while. And people don't find it that weird when I first say it, I think it doesn't even ring a bell to most. >>3006271 Soh-kra-tes (not "eez")

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 22:18:15 2012 No.3006285 File: 29 KB, 344x318, 1344836599618.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3006277 enjoy being called testicles all day by Heraclitus

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 22:18:15 2012 No.3006284 >>3006271 Not that guy but So-crá-tis

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 22:23:20 2012 No.3006298 >>3006284 >>3006280 You guys are fags

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 22:28:52 2012 No.3006313 >>3006298 Suck my cock that I suck yours.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 22:30:39 2012 No.3006320 File: 11 KB, 304x152, Capture.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3006313 btw i'm a girl

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 22:30:39 2012 No.3006321 >>3006285 I don't think someone with a name like Hera's clitoris should be calling anyone testicles. Glass houses and stones and all that.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 22:30:39 2012 No.3006322 >>3006320 I had to change the wording around because the system recognizes that as spam.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 22:31:40 2012 No.3006326 File: 15 KB, 250x250, 5245.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3006321 HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SNAP!

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 22:33:39 2012 No.3006327 >>3006322 Thank you based moot.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 22:34:39 2012 No.3006329 >>3006327 Except that was exceptionally easy to get around and still get the same message across.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 22:35:39 2012 No.3006330 >>3006329 What message was that?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 22:35:39 2012 No.3006331 >>3006321 >Hera's clitoris Whoa, best name ever. Heraclitus' parents were badass.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 22:36:39 2012 No.3006333 >>3006330 That I'm a female, by the way.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 22:46:41 2012 No.3006347 I'll go with Fullassthrottle

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 23:01:16 2012 No.3006369 >>3006347 haha

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 23:10:15 2012 No.3006385 Did you read all three lines of Thales?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 25 07:11:04 2012 No.3007090 >>3006385 Never laughed so hard at a comment on 4chan. Good work, sir/madame.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 25 07:17:04 2012 No.3007098 you've read ABOUT them you haven't read A LOT of presocratic philosophy, i guarantee you seriously fuck your face OP

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 25 07:35:28 2012 No.3007113 >>3006385 I can't believe it took so long for someone to call OP up on this.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 25 07:38:27 2012 No.3007115 Jigglypuffales

Anonymous Tue Sep 25 08:25:51 2012 No.3007144

>>3006385
>>3007090
>>3007113

not OP but read "about Thales" ... "about"
and even if there is only three lines so what? but no you keep up the good shit-posting guys, god knows what /lit/ would be like without you. Godspeed gentlemen, there are others to be condescended to in the world, you'd better make haste to go and be negative to someone else today or your egos won't make it to tomorrow.

tldr shitposting will never end

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 25 12:40:20 2012 No.3007481 >>3006385 yes

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 25 12:44:20 2012 No.3007487 Kung Tzu

Anonymous Tue Sep 25 12:53:22 2012 No.3007499

>>3007098
Considering the classification of 'presocratics' by nature indicates a time where fragments are less likely to be preserved to the present date due to their age, I don't see where your condescension is coming from.

In addition, there's nothing wrong with reading about literature, you ignorant fuck

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 25 14:11:10 2012 No.3007638 >>3007499 u mad

>>	HurrDurr Tue Sep 25 14:29:58 2012 No.3007679 File: 33 KB, 396x435, 1385930959398.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Gorgias >badass ontology >fame and fortune unlike Socrates >first nihilist club of history

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 25 14:48:16 2012 No.3007710 >>3007679 Stop right there sophist scum

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 25 14:51:17 2012 No.3007723 >>3007679 >2012 >Nihilism

Anonymous Tue Sep 25 14:54:17 2012 No.3007728
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>>3007679
My nigger. Sophists were too truthful for the world to handle, that's why fairytale motherfuckers like Plato attacked them. The sophists were right all along. Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 25 14:58:21 2012 No.3007735 >>3007728 >Callicles >Strength as justification for everything So dark and edgy

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 25 15:05:20 2012 No.3007757 >>3007728 "The universe is composed entirely of <insert Captain Planet element here>" >too truthful for the world to handle

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 25 15:09:22 2012 No.3007767 >>3007757 It's all heart, bro.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 25 17:18:55 2012 No.3008206 File: 106 KB, 500x381, DYER.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3007757 >confusing professional sophists with presocratic philosophers

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 25 23:04:23 2012 No.3009194 >>3008206 >implying that there is a significant difference between pre-socratic and post-socratic thinkers and the distinction isn't declared arbitrary by modern thinkers shigdig

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 25 23:07:43 2012 No.3009200 Play-dough

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 25 23:10:43 2012 No.3009211 File: 22 KB, 400x400, btw.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3009194

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 25 23:16:15 2012 No.3009230 >>3009211 Are you serious?

Anonymous Tue Sep 25 23:19:15 2012 No.3009242
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>>3009211
Let me break it down for you.

The name "presocratics" comes from 19th-century classical scholars, who saw a fundamental break between the interests and methods of this group of thinkers and Socrates (470-399BCE), and who regarded Socrates' interests in ethics as a radical advance in Western thought. Few would now agree with that evaluation, and it is worth pointing out that several of these 'Presocratics' were actually contemporaries of or younger than Socrates. As a descriptive label, the name "Presocratics" is misleading, but as a designator for a recognized group of thinkers it has unfortunately become commonplace.

TL;DR - You are wrong.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 25 23:19:15 2012 No.3009241 >>3009230 You seriously don't think a distinction is very commonly and very easily drawn between Archaic Age philosophy and Classical Age philosophy?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 25 23:21:15 2012 No.3009247 >>3009230 yeah, bro. umad?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 25 23:21:15 2012 No.3009249 >>3009241 >distinguishing philosophical ideas by their age and not by their schools of thought Welcome to /lit/, haven for amateur historians and people who cannot into thinking for themselves

Anonymous Tue Sep 25 23:24:15 2012 No.3009254

>>3009242
Why does "many of them were contemporaries with Socrates" occupy four hundred and fifty words in your post? Why did you give me Socrates' lifespan?

Of course it's arbitrary. All divisions are arbitrary. Do you think "Classics scholars in a century from the beforetime thought it up" is actually an argument against something? Generally if something is being practiced in scholarship, SOMEONE THOUGHT IT UP PRIOR TO THAT. It's still a convenient term, and it has real meaning for a variety of reasons spanning content, method, prevalence, and the dominance of certain schools. Christ, if we can divide Latin literature up into three distinct eras I'm pretty sure we can say that Socrates and Plato were a significant landmark in Western philosophy.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 25 23:29:16 2012 No.3009267 File: 177 KB, 400x400, youretard.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3009254

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 25 23:39:16 2012 No.3009288 File: 3 KB, 126x126, 1336484283176.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3009249 >I hate amateur historians! >I'm not familiar with the terms Archaic and Classic in reference to Greek history! Nice post breh.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 25 23:47:35 2012 No.3009308 File: 132 KB, 841x992, 825655-teddie.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3009288 10/10 On that subject who are your favourite philosophers

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 26 13:11:37 2012 No.3010444 File: 95 KB, 300x322, 1344831073711.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3009308 Ishygddames

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 27 03:46:01 2012 No.3012367 >>3010444 nice triples, shigdig I would be called 'Shiggityocles'

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 27 03:51:00 2012 No.3012376 Cocketes the Coquette. Ethics of seduction, nigga.

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