should we replace le "start with the greeks" meme with "start with the chinese"? after all, they're the real pioneers of many philosophical endeavours and they actually fathered the very concept of philosophy way before the greeks, and while western civilization got atomized, china is the oldest living civilization.
tl;dr: greeks BTFO
hehehe but they got slanty eyes ehehehehehehhehehehe
No because "start with the Greeks" is for studying western philosophy
commence with the chinese
the average Veeky Forumsard thinks that western philosophy = everything
Why not just start with the Egyptians then?
Start with-
"Precepts of the prefect, the lord Ptah-hotep, under
the Majesty of the King of the South and
North,
Assa, living eternally forever."
http ://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/texts/precepts_of_ptahhotep.htm
it is
No, because the Chinese study Western philosophy in class.
Daoism is fucking good.
It's a completely different tradition, with only later connections to the western thought.
Completely optional.