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Plato Anonymous 10/21/15 (Wed) 00:22:31 5640c0 No.2178

Pepper your angus, there shalt be no odes to this Grecian urn!

Anonymous 10/21/15 (Wed) 01:07:03 c1fb2b No.2180

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I'm a newphag @ philosophy and I tried reading Plato's dialogues and I couldn't last a page without getting thoroughly bored. From what I've learned thus far, I prefer Aristotle anyway.

I'll g-get to him one day. I promise...

Anonymous 11/04/15 (Wed) 16:32:05 877c41 No.2298

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>>2180

Funny, I was the other way around. I've read virtually all of Plato's dialogues, and thoroughly enjoyed each of them in a different way, while Aristotle has had me held up for a while.

Out of curiosity, what points of Aristotle's philosophy do you enjoy the most?

Anonymous 11/05/15 (Thu) 00:29:33 c1fb2b No.2305

>>2298

I like his ethical views (there is no universal idea of the 'good', don't apply the golden mean mechanically/virtue ethics) and overall I like that he had (what I suppose you could call) an empirical approach in contrast to Plato who comes across as what you could call rationalist. Aristotle isn't my all time favourite, but as far as the Ancient Western world goes, I like him more than pretty much everyone else.

Anonymous 11/05/15 (Thu) 16:07:06 877c41 No.2315

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>>2305

Alright, interesting; I appreciate it. Would you recommend any particular work like the ethics or poetics to best get a grasp of his ideas? I've tried scratching at the surface in the past, but like I said Aristotle was hard for me to read, largely in part to his terminology.

sage 11/05/15 (Thu) 22:53:01 c1fb2b No.2327

>>2315

Haven't read his stuff either but I would say the nicomachean ethics and politics since you obviously don't have to worry about his archaic metaphysics.

Anonymous 11/06/15 (Fri) 03:51:39 c1fb2b No.2335

>>2327

i'm that faggot in the utilitarianism thread who forgot to remove the sage

why am i such a TURBOPLEB?

Anonymous 02/13/16 (Sat) 20:56:36 c1fb2b No.3578

>>2180

I finally got to him again. I must not have gotten enough sleep back when I posted this, since I have been getting and I tried reading the same dialogue collection and I'm really enjoying it.

Aristotle still King of the Greeks tbh.

Anonymous 02/13/16 (Sat) 22:58:25 efe2cb No.3579

>>3578

thanks for necrobumping, id been looking for that plato image.

Anonymous 02/13/16 (Sat) 23:09:43 c1fb2b No.3580

>>3579

I remember seeing your post some time ago, but I forgot to reply to you T_T.

Anonymous ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ ᵃᶜᶜᵒᵘᶰᵗ 02/21/16 (Sun) 14:43:42 c74f2b No.3629

Everything Plato said is objectively correct.

Anonymous 02/22/16 (Mon) 03:52:31 b9d65c No.3631

>>2178

nigga do I have to call my platonic scholars to fuck your shit? give me a second.

Anonymous 02/22/16 (Mon) 03:59:14 b9d65c No.3632

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>>2178

called my nigga meno we gonna not only discover what is truly virtue through a Socratic dialogue only to come to my interpretation of said conclusions that man cannot achieve virtue because it can't be taught and get some little nigga to recollect knowledge HE ALREADY FUCKEN KNEW