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14946894 No.14946894 [Reply] [Original]

Is this the best flowchart?
Also, what is the general purpose for starting here?

>> No.14946908

because they were first.
just read homer, plato, and aristotle, come back at the end if you like them

>> No.14946910

The amount of typos in the first paragraph makes me disregard it.

>> No.14946918

>>14946908
So you view the rest as optional, and is best read after those three?
Do you think the chart is wrong when it says that "Mythology" is the "most essential step in being able to understand the following texts"?

>> No.14946919

>>14946894
Because the Greeks said pretty much everything there is to be said. All the others ever since have been saying it in different ways and adding nuances.

>> No.14946921

>>14946910
This flowchart, or the idea of starting with the Greeks itself?

>> No.14947133

okay, i'm finally gonna read the Iliad: which translation? lattimore, fagles, chapman and pope, those are the ones i have access too

>> No.14947142

"The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato"

>> No.14947145

none of them is going to give you pretty much anything if you don't understand the context, something which secondary sources can provide.

>> No.14947147

>>14946894
>However, this is not to say that studying these first philosophers is of merely historical interest. Nor is it just that they are representatives of a crucial chapter in the evolution of Western thought, and that it is always instructive to look back to where we have come from, both as individuals and as social and intellectual creatures. It is also that for some reason––perhaps because they were the first––they can teach us something about the whole nature of human intellectual endeavour.

>> No.14947163

>>14947133
You're reading Shakespeare in French.

>> No.14947182

>>14947163
I already told you, I don't know French

>> No.14947189

>>14947133
I didn't read from one of those translations so I can't help you picking but I would imagine they are all fairly similar and adequate.

>> No.14947197

>>14947189
thanks for the informed opinion

>> No.14947246

>>14947182
I don't care, it's an equivalence.

>> No.14947258

How do I read the Iliad if I don't know anything about history?

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14947261

start with the Pyramid Texts