I've read atleast 30 different works of philosophy from hegel nietzsche marx foscault you name it and i understood what all of them are trying to say. Am reading Plato right now and while I am enjoying the book you really dont need to "start with the greeks" to understand modern or postmodern philosophy/
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>foucault
YWNBAW
>you only have to read things you agree with
I've read Evola as well homosexual. I want to see what ideas people hold. Let me guess you havent opened a page of Foscault but you dismiss him because muh postmodernism bad, Actual anti intellectual scum.
I read Foucault in college and that's where I formed my opinion. Hadn't encountered him before then -- but I guess maybe if I was just some typical IQfy homosexual your shit comeback would've worked.
>disagrees with Evola
how is your sophomore year of college going, leftard homosexual?
Your understanding of Western Philosophy is incomplete because you didn't start with the Greeks. The worst part is that you don't even know that it's incomplete
greeks aren’t western
You of course don't actually need to read all of the Greeks but you still need to understand what they were talking about.
Jumping into western philosophy around the 20th century without being knowledgeable about what preceded it is the equivalent of entering a conversation halfway, only having had the speakers' points telephoned to you by your friend. you'll have a rough grasp of what the conversation might be about, sure, but you'll still be missing out on the depth of the convo.
there's your "muh normal fricking response"
? actual moron bait
Just read Chinese philosophy. Once you can reliably feel and manipulate your chi you just ignore western ideas
Starting with the Greeks is not about philosophy, it's about literature
If someone wanted to express the idea of 'starting with the Greeks' but wanted to restrict themselves to philosophy, they'd say something like 'all of philosophy is just a footnote to Plato'
I don't know where people got this bizarre idea from
thanks for a normal fricking response
holy shit i can smell the estrogen from here, this is the gayest post on the board right now. stop seething and people might take you a little more seriously
>I don't know where people got this bizarre idea from
Alfred North Whitehead
Also, he was generally correct in this assessment. This is why some 'philosophers' like Nietzsche and Derrida aren't necessarily philosophers in the most literal sense of the term.
And also why OP is a moron. But we are all moronic as beginners. One day he will realise it, unless he becomes so arrogant that he ends up being generic leftist, which is perhaps more likely.
SWtG
Neetzsche actually studied the Greeks and he was a scholar though
i know but he references them in his books
>he unironically fell for evola
yeah no pussy i suppose?
i already understood the basics of ancient greek philosophy before i started getting into the 18th century.
You need to reach a point where you stop reading philosophy, and actually put what you learned into practice. Just being able to understand the texts means nothing if you're still so mentally unrefined that you get perturbed by the basic responses ITT.
>i know but he references them in his books
He got a lot of shit wrong. Take him at face value and you’ll pick up his errors without realizing it. For instance the Apollo-Dionysus dichotomy didn’t actually exist - Nietzsche’s Apollo is virtually nothing like the mystical Apollo that the Greeks worshipped
>no pussy
i've been in a relationship with the love of my life for nearly 6 years now. plan on marrying her. hope you find love one day, anon.
Is she fat?
NGMI !!!
You don't start with the Greeks to better understand modern/postmodern.
You start with the Greeks because they are better than the modern/postmodern
run of the mill dumbass leftist