It feels good to come back to picrel and read some wholesome and sane philosophy every now and then. In modern philosophy everyone is so mindbroken by Christianity and realism, later on by idealism, it’s not even funny. And it’s always the same: religious households, becoming rebellious and spending the rest of their lives trying to own the Christians and the aristotelians and platonists and the hegelians and so on. Quite the inferiority complex.Anyway, been reading phaedo again and it’s just beautiful.Retvrn to the Greeks from time to time.
>>25343257Return to the greeks, as in: return to Heraclitus, the great tragedians like Sophocles or Euripides, and stuff like that. Greece had such a beautiful culture before it was ruined by all the mono-obsessed philosophers, building invisible card castles on "trascendental" values either given for granted or based on hasty a priori statements. The Greeks only exist prior to Socrates, then everything just goes to shit in a dumbing-down descending movement towards Christianity or proto-Christian thought
>>25343271>proto-christianGo back>Retvrn to the GreeksAnd stay there, do not go further. You've seen the foolishness after it. Stay here anon, with me.
>>25343271once the greeks started trying to decry myth, they went to pieces altogether. they tried to put in its place what we would now call scientific concepts. they tried to give it a literal explanation. socrates jokes about myths, and horace makes fun of them. they simply had no use for poetic thought.
>>25343271Heraclitus is great too. But 81 Fragments surviving is brutal.Socrates said he affirms everything in Heraclitus that he understood.>>25343290Then don’t progress to critical philosophy, you won’t survive there.
>>25343271>>25343257Hegel wrote a great artical on the topic . Forgot the name of it, But focused on how the whole mindset shifted from before plato to after and that was the real monumental shift in kind between the ancient and modern world. Wish I could remember it.I mean I can kind of understand, pre-idealism there is a lot of interesting, raw works, but I do think the advent of something more ruminative and structured going into the Hellenistic period with plato and aristotle is also undeniably compelling
>>25343366logic, from the greek logikon, means 'something which has been arranged in words.' since words never wholly cover the phenomena to which they are applied, those who rely on pure logic cannot be thinking truly.
>>25343257you'd love neoplatonism anon give it a go
