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[Anonymous No.15783217]

Where do I start with him? I have his complete works but should/do I read the entire thing cover to cover, or are there certain works I should start with?

[Anonymous No.15783264]

>>15783217
start with Freud interpretation of dreams

[Anonymous No.15783281]

>>15783217
Start with Derrida’s deconstruction, then proceed

[Anonymous No.15783514]

>>15783264
>>15783281
ok fuck it i'll read it cover to cover

[Anonymous No.15783532]

>>15783217
Star with song of roland, than immediately follow up with infinite jest and Mao Zedong.

[Anonymous No.15784043]

Starting with the Greeks isn't a meme?

[Anonymous No.15784052]

>>15783532
dangerous synthesis

[Anonymous No.15784058]

>>15783217
Start with the Presocratics.

[Anonymous No.15784544]

The Republic is like babies first philosophy, so start with that.

[Anonymous No.15784754]

>>15783264
>Freud
Yikes it's a Bugman.

[Anonymous No.15784864]

I started with pic related. It covers all the way back from the pre-socratics/sophists/thales/all that old stuff and ends with the major works of Plato and Aristotle. Spans from 625 BC to 325 BC.

[Anonymous No.15785041]

Iliad and Odyssey
Anthology of Classical Myth
Early Greek Philosophy by Jonathan Barnes
Euthydemus, Protagoras, Alcibiades.
Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis
Hippias major, Hippias minor, Ion
Meno, Euthyphro, Clitophon, Apology.
>If you're completely unfamiliar: Elias and David: Introductions to Philosophy with Olympiodorus: Introduction to Logic
>Porphyry's Isagoge
Minos, Laws, Epinomis, Letters (yes, deal with it, read the fucking Laws first among the big brain dialogues)
Aristotle's Categories
Aristotle's Physics
Cratylus, Theætetus, Sophist, Statesman
Aristotle's Metaphysics
Symposium, Phædrus, Gorgias
Philebus, Crito, Phaedo (yes, you shuld read Phaedo this late)
Proclus - Elements of Theology (at least the first two dozen propositions)
Parmenides
Republic, Timæus, Critias
Aristotle's De Anima
>Orpheus and the Roots of Platonism (should awaken a bonus interest in Assyrian/Chaldean religion)
Next level:
Aristotle and Other Platonists
Ancient Epistemology (Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy)
From Plato to Platonism
The Epicurus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia
The Stoics Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia (Hackett Classics)
Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Scepticism (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius in a New English Translation
The Plotinus Reader
Iamblichus' De Mysteriis
Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: The One and the Many; VS: The Search for God in Ancient Egypt Revised
(you have to read both)
then
Philosophy as a Rite of Rebirth

Then the last true philosopher:
Damascius' Problems and solutions Concerning First Principles (or wait for his never-ever Parmenides commentary, is it it too dangerous? why isn't it being translated?)
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite The Complete Works
These two are possibly the same person, or the latter was at least written under the tutelage of Damascius in the early sixth century, released into the world after the exile of the Philosophers into Syria, as a last ditch effort to save the ancient lore within Christianity itself.

If you can afford it, or find it, and still call yourself basic bitch christian after all of this:
Eriugena's Periphyseon, (unabridged, the abridged is cheap and easy).
I only found it on the site from the sticky.
And: Maximus the Confessors Ambigua, plus: Questions Addressed to Thalassius (also in sicky)
While Jay Dyer harps against Neoplatonism (which all his knowledge about it comes from Gerson's self admittedly outdated Cambridge Handbook of Plotinus), his beloved Maximus is "neoplatonic" through and through. Just exchange every occurrence of "jesus/logos" with Dionysius and there you go. Almost identical.

[Anonymous No.15785143]

>>15785041
for proof about the companion to plotinus, he's releasing a new one.
(Gerson)
>The New Cambridge Companion to Plotinus, with James Wilberding, forthcoming (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021).