So tell me /lit/, who's your favorite presocratic philosopher and master of thought ?
Democritus, of course.
Why should I care about them?
Plato, Descartes, Kant, Schopenhauer and possibly Nietzsche did more than they ever did.
>>8204394
That's funny. That's exactly what I said when I was invited to my parents funeral.
>>8204394
lol
nice board
>>8204394
You should care about them because they are the Begining.
Each thinker you are quoting learnt from them.
>>8204373
i like the sound of the name Anaximander.
>>8204373
Pythagoras, of course. And if you disagree I'll beat you silly with a monad.
>>8204401
By this logic, you should go all the way back until the beginning of time.
There's a line we can draw, at which point we can say "anything prior to it is largely superfluous."
The line is drawn at Plato.
>>8204373
Anaximander
>>8204431
This is true, the translator of many of their fragments admitted himself that philosophers hardly care about the presocratics, or the sophists, and that if they have some interest in them it is purely historical.
>>8204431
They're not hard to read or understand at all. Just do it.
>>8204373
Empedocles and Zeno
>>8204460
Sorry, but life is short and strength limited; therefore, let us read good books.
What's the best introduction to western philosophy?
Thales. The master.
Heraclitus off course
>>8204373
Parmenides - messed me up seriously but ultimately for the better
heraclitus no contest
Parmenides is the correct answer.
Xenophon
heraclitus, obviously
Prometheus
