>didn't start with the greeks
I went straight into Evola/Nietzsche/Guenon/Spengler when first getting into literature. Should I go back and start over with Plato?
Should I seriously read this?
Tyler Walker
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Eli Rivera
you've already lost
Benjamin King
Start with the Five Dialogues collection
Logan Gray
you gotta reread all that shit except for the traditionalist
Cooper Rogers
Could I start with the last days of socrates? I hear that's good
Cameron Diaz
What do you have to lose from reading it? Every retard undergrad has read it user its not hard
Camden Phillips
No shit
All of those people are in one way or another responding to Plato
The Republic is arguably the most important work of political philosphy in history
Eli Hughes
>I went straight into Evola/Nietzsche/Guenon/Spengler
this
Dylan Garcia
Read it and watch this along side it.
youtu.be
After which you will probably need to re-read all of those people, since they are all building off Plato.
Jaxon Campbell
Btw forgot to add
Starting with the Greeks isnt a meme its always said for a reason, philosophy is all building blocks, if you dont start with the foundation how do you expect to fully comprehend the roof tiles? Sorry for the shitty analogy.
Ayden Adams
Since you have to ask to make yourself do it, don't bother with Plato yet.
Grayson Jenkins
Most of the republic is shit you only need some of it (this goes for most of his dialogues)
Read Meno -> Phaedo -> Republic -> Sophist -> Parmenides but you really only need like 10 pages of each of them
Jason Ramirez
yeah this is the impression I get from skimming the book
A lot of it looks redundant since a lot of it is ingrained in culture probably
Mason Perez
you scared of a book? read it.
Jonathan Cruz
I find aristotle's ideas are more so ingrained into the western education system at least.
Christopher Reyes
PARMENIDES
John Johnson
Samuel Price
I would suggest you to start with Meno. It's much shorter and easier.
That is one of his more difficult dialogues
Oliver Russell
>I would suggest you to start with Meno. It's much shorter and easier.
dude thank you for the suggestion, I found a $5 copy of it and ordered it. I didn't feel like reading through the republic right now
Ian Myers
honestly it’s better to have read those dudes first than to have started plato and gotten bored.
Liam Ross
Which would be the best editions of Republic and other playing work? In terms of quality and translation
Julian Allen
Yes, once you know everything you can then know anything.
Brayden Thomas
your understanding of plato would be tainted by all that trash you read so there's really no point desu
Logan Gonzalez
I think you should read plato anyway because he's fun to read
Ryder Scott
I hope you'll like it. It's a good entry point into Plato work.
Nathaniel Torres
No. Just go to Nietzsche.