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Alright I finished the Greeks, what next?

>> No.7441300

>>7441296
https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1y8_RRaZW5X3xwztjZ4p0XeRplqebYwpmuNNpaN_TkgM/pub

>> No.7441305

https://www.uni-due.de/SHE/HE_ME_Gallery.htm

>> No.7441306

By Greeks I mean Aristotle and Plato, are there any others?

>> No.7441320

>>7441306
>>7441300

>> No.7441347

>Finished the Greeks
If you think you can actually finish the Greeks, its quite clear you haven't actually finished the Greeks

>> No.7441362

>>7441306

Hesiod, Safo, Sophocles, Euripides, Aeschylus...

>> No.7441371

>>7441362
>play writers

>> No.7441376

>>7441306
playwrights and sappho and homer

ignore the historians, greek 'nonfiction' is worthless

fight me irl if any of you disagree

>> No.7441384

>>7441376
History of the Peloponnessian war is good, but not relevant to Philosophy, just like Poets

>> No.7441386

>>7441384
Presocratics, Stoics, Neoplatonists, Hedonists, etc.

Read the google doc

>> No.7441391

>>7441386
I'm trying, but its a fucking mess
And do Presocratic works even still exist?

>> No.7441401

>>7441296
Augustine, Boethius, Anselm, Aquinas.

>> No.7441405

>>7441391
The First Philosophers: The Pre-Socratics and the Sophists

>>7441384
>not relevant to philosophy

>> No.7441409

>>7441391
>it's a fucking mess
Maybe it's that way to dissuade plebs. haha
>Presocratic works
Yes. Read the google doc.

>> No.7441427

Resume with the Romans

>> No.7441431

>>7441427
lmao no

the romans are worthless. read the aeneid if you're a tryhard, but don't kid yourself that they will become relevant as you progress.

>> No.7441445

>>7441431
>>7441427
This
Every decent Roman writer was really Greek

>> No.7441570

>>7441445
Cicero.

>> No.7441604

>>7441306
>are there any others

No anon. Athens was just 2 people.

>> No.7441631
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7441631

>>7441604
>implying there is anything besides the Idea 'Athens'

>> No.7442855

>>7441296
>what next
Read them again if you don't know the answer to that. And this time try to understand what they tell you.

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>>7441296
>finished the greeks

>> No.7442915

>>7441300
>All this Hegel circlejerking
He was average at best, should focus more on Hume

>> No.7444605

>>7441300
what happened to the section on Stirner?

>> No.7444687

>>7441296
>Alright I finished the Greeks
>only read aristotle and plato
how about killing yourself

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7444816

>>7441296
Read more Greeks

>> No.7444951

>>7441445
>he's never wept from reading Livy

“We ask for toil and danger, for leave to play a man’s, and a soldier’s, part…We ask only for the worst dangers, the most exacting toil."

The Romans are very clearly different from the Greeks, but a lot of their writing is beautiful and undoubtedly influential.

>> No.7445777

>>7441306
Empedicles, Zeno, Zeno, Pyrrho, Sextus Empiricus, Parmenides, Democritus, Anaxagoras (kek)...

>> No.7446554

>>7441306
This better be bait, asshole

>> No.7446568

>>7444816

>christfag sophistry
>worthwhile

>> No.7446630

skip to hume