Read a chapter of a philosophy text

>not using cliff's notes
fuckin millenials

You still don't get it. You just know someone else's thoughts on it. The best you can do with that information is to remember it, but you still do not understand it.

There it is.
The most retarded thing I've read today

>This is an ironic post but a good amount of this board is actually doing this

Elaborate

that's fine. once you've caught on to the main points, reread the text again

You wouldn't get it anyway. Much of it is up to educated interpretation. It's removed by languages, cultures and eras. Your lens is inherently flawed.

There is no problem with that unless sparknotes gets it wrong. It helped me get through a few Faulkner novels

not him but your a dumb faggot

I love this fucking board

I love you.

I love you guys so much. You are my only true friends

Understanding isn't the same as knowing the answer. You can know the answer to a mathematical problem without knowing how to solve it.

The idea of “Greek” philosophy being “Greek” is silly and stupid.

The philosophers aren’t even Greek:

Thales is Phoenician. Thales learned his philosophy from an Egyptian Priest.
Anaxagoras is Persian.
Pythagoras’s dad is Phoenician/Syrian. Pythagoras learned his geometry from Egypt, astronomy from Chaldea, Math from Phoenicia, And philosophy from Persia.
Socrates learned all of his philosophy from Anaxagoras.
Plato learned from Socrates and travelled to Egypt.
Anaximander and Anaximenes learned from Anaxagoras.
Heraclitus is Persian.
Aristotle learned from Plato’s Academy.

And that’s if the philosophers existed at all at all.

The idea of Freddie Mercury singing American "Rock n Roll " is silly and stupid.

He wasn't even American.

He was born in the Eastern Coast of Africa in Zanzibar.
He also was Zoroastrian, therefore all of Queen's music should be considered Zoroastrian African Queer Rock

>go online to discuss a text outside of Veeky Forums
>only places discussing text are sparknotes and gradesaver, which don't have forums (as far as I know) and are for students

A large portion of learning philosophy is understanding what other people think about a given text. How many times have you read a text(assuming you actually read) and thought that you had a firm grasp of it only to be humbled by someone else's interpretation? This is part of the process of learning.

>)))Sparknotes(((

>SparkNotes
Is this bait
t. Someone who has not read a single page of philosophy in his life

People from Phoenix are Phoenicians

Depends who the philosopher is. I'm a professional philosopher and still don't know what the heck is going on sometimes, especially if I read someone like Hegel.

Only problem is, Cliff notes (or whatever) only give you the dumb mainstream opinion. Okay for a reference point, but if your opinions on the text waver from this then trust your own.

In essence, Philosophy is deconstructing (ignore the Derrida connotation) old texts and supplementing it with new interpretations allied with better reasoning and evidence; i.e. think for yourself and question the text.

Whilst I'm here I might as well pimp out my own Youtube channel concerning philosophy understanding - that's getting no views. Can't decide whether because its a) crap or because b) it has got no publicity.

youtube.com/channel/UCQrSXATDZrNrTxQvg1vUYCg

it's getting no views because lack of exposure and you're channel is a niche of a niche so the upper bound for views isnt high anyway

>(((reading)))
>Not watching Jordan B. Memerson

Should i adopt this method? unironically asking