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Alright I finished the Greeks, what next?
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Alright I finished the Greeks, what next?
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>>7441296
https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1y8_RRaZW5X3xwztjZ4p0XeRplqebYwpmuNNpaN_TkgM/pub
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https://www.uni-due.de/SHE/HE_ME_Gallery.htm
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By Greeks I mean Aristotle and Plato, are there any others?
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>>7441306
>>7441300
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>Finished the Greeks
If you think you can actually finish the Greeks, its quite clear you haven't actually finished the Greeks
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>>7441306

Hesiod, Safo, Sophocles, Euripides, Aeschylus...
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>>7441362
>play writers
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>>7441306
playwrights and sappho and homer

ignore the historians, greek 'nonfiction' is worthless

fight me irl if any of you disagree
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>>7441376
History of the Peloponnessian war is good, but not relevant to Philosophy, just like Poets
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>>7441384
Presocratics, Stoics, Neoplatonists, Hedonists, etc.

Read the google doc
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>>7441386
I'm trying, but its a fucking mess
And do Presocratic works even still exist?
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>>7441296
Augustine, Boethius, Anselm, Aquinas.
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>>7441391
The First Philosophers: The Pre-Socratics and the Sophists

>>7441384
>not relevant to philosophy
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>>7441391
>it's a fucking mess
Maybe it's that way to dissuade plebs. haha
>Presocratic works
Yes. Read the google doc.
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Resume with the Romans
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>>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.
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>>7441431
>>7441427
This
Every decent Roman writer was really Greek
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>>7441445
Cicero.
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>>7441306
>are there any others

No anon. Athens was just 2 people.
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>>7441604
>implying there is anything besides the Idea 'Athens'
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>>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
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>>7441300
>All this Hegel circlejerking
He was average at best, should focus more on Hume
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>>7441300
what happened to the section on Stirner?
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>>7441296
>Alright I finished the Greeks
>only read aristotle and plato
how about killing yourself
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>>7441296
Read more Greeks
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>>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.
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>>7441306
Empedicles, Zeno, Zeno, Pyrrho, Sextus Empiricus, Parmenides, Democritus, Anaxagoras (kek)...
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>>7441306
This better be bait, asshole
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>>7444816

>christfag sophistry
>worthwhile
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skip to hume
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