How can you achieve philosophy, when you have been cursed with anglophony?
>>24728334How can you use attention economy to bait anons into discussion, when your whole identity is grounded into the bait?
>>24728334Reading others' works means you never had it in you to become a philosopher in the first place, only a reader of philosophy.
>>24728902This makes absolutely no sense, because literally every philosopher in history has read, and often responded to, others' work.
>>24729592Socrates
>>24729606Socrates knew the school of Pythagoras and Heraclitus. There’s no doubt about him reading Heraclitus book, he even says in one of the dialogues that he affirms most of what Heraclitus wrote. Read Phaedo to know about Socrates connection with the Pythagoreans.
>>24728334Simply just read in translation. Caring about the opinions of anonymous internet users who you likely never meet in real life is peak cuckery.
>>24729613And who did Heraclitus read? Checkmate
>>24729628I am sure he was literate, but someone has to develop the first theory to be questioned and criticised. But there is still to transitional phase from myth to philosophy and there is also no doubt that there was writing involved.
>>24729650Sure but that anon is talking purely about reading philosophy.
>>24729663That’s nitpicking. He’s still right. The first philosophers questioned the myth by treating it as philosophy to be criticised.
You learn another language or accept that economic theory is the only form of philosophy your language can produce
>>24729628The presocratics kinda famously attributed their philosophical tradition to mythic sages like Orpheus (likely native folk wisdom) as well as the older near Eastern civilizations (in particular the Egyptians and Babylonians). This is the origin of the "Greeks are always children" trope you will see cropping up from time to time in presocratic philosophy.
>>24728334Learn German
