Yea Forums, I wanted to try and learn more about philosophy coming in blind...

Yea Forums, I wanted to try and learn more about philosophy coming in blind, but I couldn't understand a lot of references to other philosophers, so I'd like to know where I should start

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>inb4 muh geeks

The Greeks

I didn't exist before I was a zygote, when I inevitably die my experience will remain, in essence, the same as before I was conceived, difference being that when you die, you only losd the means to distinguish yourself from nothing, which is essentially the same thing as not existing, but again different.

That pic is just Sadism.
Start with Plato, unless you want to try your luck with the pre-socratics. Or just keep going with what you're already reading.

Plato and then what?

Don't listen to the "muh Greeks" memes. You need very little background knowledge to get something out of most philosophy texts. You need to read any classic three or more times at different points in your development to really grasp its significance, so the order in which you read things for the first time is unimportant. Just pick up something that interests you and follow the footnotes afterwards. The most important stuff you'll need to read eventually if you want to understand philosophy is Kant and Aristotle, but you can chill out for a while before getting there. The only philosophers that you should regard as strictly off limits for the time being would be Hegel, Heidegger, Husserl, Nietzsche, almost any Frenchfag who wrote in the 60s and 70s, and Aristotle (the nichomacean ethics and the logical works are an exception. Plato is a fun place to start and so are Pascal and Erich Fromm.

How it actually is is no time black on the sides and no time black in the middle

Aristotle

Kierkegaard is twice as off limits as Nietzsche, if we're setting Master rules.

Where to begin in Philosophy is always a weird question, are you interested in Continentals? Analytics? o r just the history of It? Either way you cant go wrong starting with Plato but if you dont want to start with the Greeks, Descartes Meditations on first Philosophy isn't a bad bet.

Plato - 2D
Descartes - 3D
Hegel - 4D

Aristotle, Plotinus and Proclus

Buy a good textbook, then start with "your " school. Do not read greek philosophers, maby some write-ups. If you do enjoy great language: Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, then their references. Schopenhauer's works are preety nice to read fast and he jumps on very different subjects (inside of philosophy, of course), you can start with him.

Greeks just take your time away. They are interesting, but there is no gain in reading their works nowadays. Hard language, long topics, many errors. Bad ones to start with.

Start by learning English.

Or reading in your native language, you cocksucker.

>what people think is two black dicks approaching a white hole
>what really happens is two white dicks about to dock each other

really makes you think

DONT LISTEN TO ANY OF THOSE OLD "the future is now old man" MEN!
All literature before 21st century is completely irrelevant to the modern state of man!
I highly recommend reading Youall Noah Safari and his book "Homo Sapiens Sapiens", it will explain the entire world better than philosophy could. Philosophy is dumb and is just a play of words, if you want to understand how the world works just watch Cosmos by Neil Degraze Tycoon, it will explain you everything about the universe and the meaning of life (which is science and math).
Hope this help!

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god, can it get more cancerous?

Yes, it could be you

Well, science is irrelevant when we are talking about the world. Why? Science is made on assumtions that are not absolutely true (nor true at all). It helps sciences a lot, but it makes them irrelevant while talking about human as a beeing, a world as it is, a aesthetics, emotions, order, disorder, truth, false, and so on. Philosophy also builds one, makes one greater, gives one a set of tools to think, to live, to cooperate. Philosophy is not something what you can compare to science, remember please

Yaiks do you understand that you are coming in loaded with presuppositions and methaphisical meanings in this post right?
The most obvious one beeing math. Numbers are completely outside the phisical realm.

The Sumerians

Yeah, I tried to start with Nietzsche, I guess that was my error
I don't understand your question
Gotcha
Continentals
But they just told me to stay off of them for a bit?
I assume I need to read Greek philosophers to understand the evolution of philosophy and its history, correct?
I'm sorry if my grammar isn't the best, English isn't my native language, but I am trying to get better. You seem like you need to work on some issues, maybe seek therapy
I don't want the entire world explained to me, I just want to have better tools of reason so I can try to explain it to others if that makes any sense

Well, if evolution of philosophy is what you seek than maby, yeah. Reading greeks is just realy annyoing sometimes, they make many mistakes (example you'll find in Socrates-Teaitet dialogue). I think (thats what I do as well) that just taking wide,not that exact look on variety of times and systems should work if you are just starting with that knowledge. Then I guess it isn't important what will you read, just put it on timeleane correctly. I'd advise you looking on abstracts on Plato, Aristotle, Parmenides, some "smaller" ones maby. It is good to know them, but the most important in getting to know them is to find the core of their philosophy, the thing that defines it, small thought, probably not more. That Thing can easly give you a abillity to organise therest of the knowledge on topic. You can do the same with the rest of philosophers, but I'd consider focusing on important ones that you can or eish to read. If you don't know how x is related to what you are reading, take a peek on x, return to what you are reading and maby consider getting to know x.