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Seriously though, this is a very real issue. No sooner have I started reading anything vaguely philosophical do I start mentally listing everything I should have read before, in chronological order, all the way back to the Old Testament
There are people here who have jumped straight in at Fanged Noumena or A Thousand Plateaus and you have to ask: "Did you really understand what you were reading? Did you really?"
thing is, almost nobody actually starts with the greeks, and absolutely no one has the time to read all of philosophy, such that you'll always start out with something you won't fully understand, and have your further reading be guided by that initial interest
True, and it's the reason why as soon as you engage with one philosophical text you're pretty much locked in forever. But later philosophy is so replete with and dependent on references to predecessors that I'd struggle to understand how a freshfaced newbie could understand it
true, and as I said, they actually can't. still, it's broadly contemporary stuff that is most likely to draw their attention, because it engages more directly with their lived reality than the classics, the relevance of which only becomes apparent through these difficulties
Sounds like a good argument for a reverse-chronological reading of philosophy
yeah, and probably not just philosophy
(e.g. I'd say the fash/trad appreciation of greek statues and similar aesthetics is silly not because it is anachronistic, but because it involves an eradication of their significance)
Honestly I just read whatever has the greatest meme potential on Twitterpic.twitter.com/F2QUXWtEeM
Are you reading that right now? I was thinking of tackling it after years of only flirting with specific passages during uni
I try from time to time, but it's almost unreadable even for me as a native speaker. It's definitely nothing you just pick up and read. I guess you really have to dissect every paragraph and look for some context.
If I read it I'm going to supplement it pretty heavily with Gregg Sadler's explanations. He helped me understand the preface better than I would have alone
“start with the greeks” as a meme is as unrealistic as it is actually useful advice
Maybe. The Republic and some knowledge of the pre-Socratics is not un-useful since many of the concepts proposed are repeated ad nauseum throughout all of philosophy
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