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Where do I start with Aristotle?

>> No.7273796

Organon

>> No.7273798

>>7273792
Metaphysics

>> No.7273800

>>7273792
commence with the chinese

>> No.7273808

le trash

>> No.7273813

>>7273800
Or Begin with the Babylonians
Engange with the Egyptians
Saddle the Sophists
Pursue the Persians
Associate with the Assyrians
Trek with the Trojans

>> No.7273846

Plato's complete works.

>> No.7273877

Read Categories
Get a textbook on classic logic/watch some course to get a grip on it
Read Physics, followed by Metaphysics

the ones on ethics are more independent so you can read 'em, but Aristotle is a fairly systematic thinker

>> No.7273925

>>7273813

I bet you can't name a single book from either of those civilizations tbh fam.

>> No.7273962

>>7273813>>7273800

Why are you employing alliteration if the original phrase did not contaalliteration?

>> No.7273976

>>7273792
Start with the Greeks

>> No.7273994

>>7273877

ethics is not independent of the physics and metaphysics. he employs his technical vocabulary in the ethics.

>> No.7274029

>>7273792

With secondary literature. Ackrill's " Aristotle The Philosopher" is a good place to start. From there you can decide what interests you the most in Aristotle' work and go from there.

>> No.7274034

>>7273925
>sophists
>civilization

I bet you can't name a single book you've read.

>> No.7274043

>>7274034
>being this pleb
Were you not educated as a boy? Do you get confused easily?

>> No.7274059

>>7273962
the original has alliteration, though;

άρχιζε μετά Ἀχαιῶν

>> No.7274079

>>7274043
>the civilization of the sophists
just pop a cap in your dome already hahahah smh

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7274119

just don't go around doing the aristotle thing, thanks

>> No.7274141

>>7274079
>he didn't spot the proustian allusion
I assume you read in translation? You have read 'À la recherche du temps perdu' right?

>> No.7274174

>>7274141
I read, in French, the three first novels, before getting tired of this bourgeois mediocrity.

Flex your ass back to reddit

>> No.7274199

>>7274174
So I'm correct in assuming you didn't read the Russian translation? I knew this board had its fair share of the middlebrow, but I wouldn't have thought one of the trips would be such a lowbrow droll. Do you pepper your butter? Nevermind, I doubt you've even read her.

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>>7274059
>άρχιζε μετά Ἀχαιῶν

This just seems wrong to me. Meta means after in Ancient Greek, and άρχιζε has several meanings.

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7274269

>>7273792

In our modern times, it doesn't much matter where you begin in a subject as long as by the end you're like a table with three legs or a cube or something

>>7274119
idio

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>>7273925
>either
>list of 6

>> No.7274601

>>7273994
That seems right. There's an interesting study of the Nicomachean Ethics by Eric Salem that provides an argument that certain parts of the overall argument in the Ethics are only clear in light of the Metaphysics.

(I think it had to do with how "work" is understood.)

>> No.7274619

>>7274244
>meta means after in Ancient Greek
>implying it's not used with a genitive
>implying it doesn't mean "with" in homeric greek
hahaha srsly tho