/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.15585771]

What makes the writings of Plato and Aristotle so timeless, /lit/?

[Anonymous No.15585784]

>>15585771
Their relative simplicity, and how they form the philosophical heritage of both the Western and Eastern worlds.

[Anonymous No.15585816]

>>15585771
They're not really timeless, we just live in a postplatonic world (a world shaped by Plato's ideas and reactions to them).
Someone born two centuries before Parmenides wouldn't have had a clue what Plato was on about.

We often make the mistake of thinking the transition from present to distant future naturally enforces truth, dispels errors, and unfolds the hidden quality of things (we often call that "vindicating").

And so we are arrogant enough to think that because Shakespeare had the good luck to still please us a few measly centuries after his death (that is to say, on cosmic timescale, virtually at the time of his death), then surely Shakespeare must be timeless. Yet another covert way of affirming we modern must be right about the fundamentals of things. It simply is myopia.

[Anonymous No.15585843]

https://www.academia.edu/39757061/Plato_Platonism_and_the_History_of_Philosophy

[Anonymous No.15586246]

They are so easy that even retards can understand them.