Thomas Taylor Collection
Intro Philosophy
Austin Sanders
Kevin Mitchell
The one I showed you. If you need a little help, get (and read) the Cambridge Companion or listen to some lectures about the subject. Prof. Michael Sugrue recorded an outstanding series of lectures titled Plato Socrates and the Dialogues. I cannot recommend him highly enough.
Alexander Anderson
1. Plato — complete works.
2. History of philosophy, any academic thick textbook.
Then just continue studying with any philosophical school, since the whole philosophy is simply Post-Platonism.
Cameron Wright
Plato's Socratic Dialogues (Apologia, Phaedo, Crito)
The Republic, also Plato
Skip Aristotle, you'll need to be taught and his influence begins to pop up later in Christian theological philosophy
After Plato you have a choice of quite a few different schools of Post-Socratic philosophy, namely
>Stoicism: behavior according to natural principle, namely the focus of controlling ones own thoughts and judgments. The most prolific classical school
Read Epictetus' Discourses and Handbook (Enchiridion), as well as Marcus Aurelius' Meditations for a more practical and individual take.
>Scepticism: The belief that all senses, including reason, are flawed and ultimately subjective, and the axioms drawn from these flawed systems must be challenged
Pyrrho, though not what we would consider a Skeptic, was the forefather of this mindset
>Epicurean metaphysics: a model of the universe in which God is presented as an uncaring primeval force. Can be thought of as the origin for both fundamental atheism and nihilism
Epicurus, obviously, was the founder of this school, commonly considered an atheist alongside Pyrrho
>Cynicism: Direct distrust of all value systems and normative forms of action
Diogenese the Cynic, the 'founder' of this school should be read about if only for being an absolute madman
From there you just pick up texts that either offer analysis on a primary source or move onto a later primary source that develops on the theme.
Zachary Ward
>not going from plato to aristotle to the early, middle, and late platonists
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Grayson Gray
So can I skip Aristotle if I read Plato?
Zachary Watson
No.
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Wyatt Murphy
If you want to be a smoothbrain forever, sure. Skip Aristotle.
Aristotle's organon aren't really like the dialogues. It's like the first analytic philosophy, except he is describing real things and not virtual ones, and his goal is clarity and not obfuscation. His ethics and metaphysics will grow your brain and introduce you to the language and concepts that later philosophers refer to. Both Aristotle and Plato are top shelf, and you should read them both. They are infinitely more interesting than someone like Sartre or Deleuze. Don't be in a hurry to get to the 20th century and "the good stuff." These are the good stuff.
Elijah Parker
>he is describing real things and not virtual ones
What is this? This sounds like Deleuze