Literally what the fuck? Do I really have to go over two millennia worth of text just to get to Nietzsche (my favorite philosopher)?
>>8176945
You do have to cover the Greeks and the Bible.
>>8176945
How do you know he's your favorite if you haven't gotten to him yet?
>>8176945
>Nietzsche
>favorite philosopher
>hasn't read the Greeks
Checks out.
>>8176945
>Nietzsche (my favorite philosopher)?
>>8176945
If he's your favourite philosopher, you should already know Nietzche is famous for subverting many aspects of traditional western philosophy, and you won't appreciate the whole story if you don't know about his predescessors.
I don't think you have to rigorously study every single text beforehand, but you should have a good idea about what they're about.
>>8176945
Where that shit at?
>>8177022
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y8_RRaZW5X3xwztjZ4p0XeRplqebYwpmuNNpaN_TkgM/mobilebasic?pli=1
delete this thread
>>8176945
to read Nietzsche and fully grasp what he's trying to do, you should at the very least be familiar with Plato.
>>8176974
Please neck yourself
>>8177137
Nietzsche (my favorite philosopher)
>>8177040
>being butthurt about the idea that giving people malaria nets is a better idea than discussing """""""revolutionary""""""" semantics
>muh the complement of communism is liberalism wake up sheeple
>>8176945
>Want to understand an important writer
>Don't want to understand the cultural context of his writing
wew
>>8176945
you can skip Aristotle
>>8176945
Just read the Greeks through Plato and Schopenhauer. Nietzsche didn't read much philosophy.
For the only philosophy that matters, you don't need to read very much.
Start with Plato, then deal with Kant.
Then move onto Schopenhauer, who was a little bit autistic and took his teacher seriously when told to read only Plato/Kant.
Boom. You're now ready for Nietzsche.
Bonus points for reading you're away around the Greeks in general, and potentially the Bible/etc, but by no means needed.
>>8177514
>no Hegel
>no Wittgenstein
Why even bother of you're gonna skip the best ones.
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