Anyone else frustrated they've still have to cover the basics of philosophic tradition?
I'm trying hard, but it's depressing knowing you arguably still know shit.
>>8126449
>ywn know anything
>>8126449
stop trying and
just be yourself
>>8126449
>not spending a year reading solely introductions to philosophical schools
>intro to and selected readings of pre-Socratics
>intro to and selected readings of Plato
>... Aristotle
>... Plotinus
>Augustine
>St. Anselm and St. Thomas Aquinas
>etc. etc. through to Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Marx, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, and the analytics.
Congrats, you now have a basic idea about the philosophical tradition. Then you start over and read all the original texts in depth.
Listen to Michael Sugrue on Plato
" Moby Dick is about a lot more than whales, and Socratic philosophy is about a lot more than a wise man walking around saying enigmatic, sometimes ironic things"
Plato, Socrates, and the Dialogues
Professor Michael Sugrue of Princeton
The dialogues share some general characteristics:
They are not a soliloquy, but rather a discussion.
They are not between equals (there is a teacher-student relationship).
Plato himself never speaks.
Each dialogue is a work of art, but all, taken together, constitute one huge artwork.
At the center of the form is irony.
The dialogues are very clearly intended to be a teaching tool.
Dr. Sugrue shows how each dialogue breathes with the feeling, the tension, and even the humor of great theater.
On a human level, they testify not only to the greatness of Plato's gifts, but to the loyalty, friendship, and dauntless love of learning that he shared with his beloved master.
A New Kind of Hero
https://youtu.be/mx5qg3dijnU
>>8126461
This.
>>8126462
That's also just the Western cannon. Indian mysticism and oral epics has theological worth, and the Islamic mathematicians of Avicenna and the like.
>inb4 sadfrogposters
I'm not saying you should read African philosophy, Christ. Although Augustine was.
>>8126461
underrated post
