So tell me Veeky Forums, who's your favorite presocratic philosopher and master of thought ?

So tell me Veeky Forums, who's your favorite presocratic philosopher and master of thought ?

Democritus, of course.

Why should I care about them?

Plato, Descartes, Kant, Schopenhauer and possibly Nietzsche did more than they ever did.

That's funny. That's exactly what I said when I was invited to my parents funeral.

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You should care about them because they are the Begining.
Each thinker you are quoting learnt from them.

Sorry lad.

You can have my parents for a while if you want.

>No rebuttal

i like the sound of the name Anaximander.

Pythagoras, of course. And if you disagree I'll beat you silly with a monad.

By this logic, you should go all the way back until the beginning of time.

There's a line we can draw, at which point we can say "anything prior to it is largely superfluous."

The line is drawn at Plato.

Anaximander

This is true, the translator of many of their fragments admitted himself that philosophers hardly care about the presocratics, or the sophists, and that if they have some interest in them it is purely historical.

They're not hard to read or understand at all. Just do it.

Empedocles and Zeno

Sorry, but life is short and strength limited; therefore, let us read good books.

What's the best introduction to western philosophy?

Thales. The master.

Heraclitus off course

Parmenides - messed me up seriously but ultimately for the better

heraclitus no contest

Parmenides is the correct answer.

Xenophon

heraclitus, obviously

Prometheus