The Official September 2017 Study Group Forum

[chargers21]

If you need recommendations on Greek philosophy, I'm your man

Not sure I want to go down that rabbit hole quite yet

Join us on the dark side

[oopsu812]

If you need recommendations on Greek philosophy, I'm your man

Not sure I want to go down that rabbit hole quite yet

Join us on the dark side

I certainly want to venture into different areas of philosophy at some point, I just wouldn't know where to start. There's so damn much.

[chargers21]

If you need recommendations on Greek philosophy, I'm your man

Top 3 recs?

Plato's Republic is an easy top choice for me, followed by Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, and then I LOVE LOVE LOVED Plato's Apology of Socrates as well as Aristophanes' Clouds. Those last 2 are very short works, Ethics is decently short, and Republic is a behemoth

[chargers21]

If you need recommendations on Greek philosophy, I'm your man

Not sure I want to go down that rabbit hole quite yet

Join us on the dark side

I certainly want to venture into different areas of philosophy at some point, I just wouldn't know where to start. There's so damn much.

Plato's Apology of Socrates is really short, wonderful, and probably easily found online for free

[oopsu812]

If you need recommendations on Greek philosophy, I'm your man

Top 3 recs?

Plato's Republic is an easy top choice for me, followed by Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, and then I LOVE LOVE LOVED Plato's Apology of Socrates as well as Aristophanes' Clouds. Those last 2 are very short works, Ethics is decently short, and Republic is a behemoth

Looks like you have similar tastes to a prof I had. Add in Antigone by Sophocles and that was pretty much the required reading for her course.

[chargers21]

If you need recommendations on Greek philosophy, I'm your man

Top 3 recs?

Plato's Republic is an easy top choice for me, followed by Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, and then I LOVE LOVE LOVED Plato's Apology of Socrates as well as Aristophanes' Clouds. Those last 2 are very short works, Ethics is decently short, and Republic is a behemoth

Looks like you have similar tastes to a prof I had. Add in Antigone by Sophocles and that was pretty much the required reading for her course.

I will admit that I did not read them by choice. That's about half the reading list for a course that I took. I didn't know what I was getting into with that class

[chewinggum]

If you need recommendations on Greek philosophy, I'm your man

Top 3 recs?

Plato's Republic is an easy top choice for me, followed by Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, and then I LOVE LOVE LOVED Plato's Apology of Socrates as well as Aristophanes' Clouds. Those last 2 are very short works, Ethics is decently short, and Republic is a behemoth

+100 to these. I read these as a Phil minor in UG (except Clouds).

Also recommend Material Beings by PVI. It's a nice segue into denser readings

[CottonHarvest]

If you need recommendations on Greek philosophy, I'm your man

Top 3 recs?

Plato's Republic is an easy top choice for me, followed by Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, and then I LOVE LOVE LOVED Plato's Apology of Socrates as well as Aristophanes' Clouds. Those last 2 are very short works, Ethics is decently short, and Republic is a behemoth

+100 to these. I read these as a Phil minor in UG (except Clouds).

Also recommend Material Beings by PVI. It's a nice segue into denser readings

There is also Euthyphro, Meno, Crito, and Phaedo by Plato

[Mikey]

went out with TLS peeps last night, can't bring myself to do LSAT shit today so gonna start like next week or in like august idk I'll see how I feel

[chargers21]

went out with TLS peeps last night, can't bring myself to do LSAT shit today so gonna start like next week or in like august idk I'll see how I feel

I'm completely jealous of all you city slickers

[Mikey]

went out with TLS peeps last night, can't bring myself to do LSAT shit today so gonna start like next week or in like august idk I'll see how I feel

I'm completely jealous of all you city slickers

come through and we will set something up with you!

[Alexandros]

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[Mikey]

One of the few things my 4 year degree has instilled in me is a deep and profound hatred of philosophy.

I've heard the pre-Platonic ones are good though.

I've only taken political philosophy and I thought it was alright. never even took intro to philosophy but I did want to though

[dj9i27]

One of the few things my 4 year degree has instilled in me is a deep and profound hatred of philosophy.

I've heard the pre-Socratic ones are good though.

inverse effect on me, I really got into Camus and Jung (My teacher would bring up Jung a lot i know he isn't PHIL MASTER)

[Alexandros]

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[chargers21]

went out with TLS peeps last night, can't bring myself to do LSAT shit today so gonna start like next week or in like august idk I'll see how I feel

I'm completely jealous of all you city slickers

come through and we will set something up with you!

I'm just a short 700 mile jog away

[chewinggum]

One of the few things my 4 year degree has instilled in me is a deep and profound hatred of philosophy.

I've heard the pre-Platonic ones are good though.

I've only taken political philosophy and I thought it was alright. never even took intro to philosophy but I did want to though

I don't hate philosophy but I also only minored in it.

I still only hate math.

[chargers21]

I never took an actual philosophy class. All of the greek philosophy I read was from an upper level honors interpretive writing course, and was completely outside of my standard wheelhouse as a science nerd. Definitely an eye opening class for me, because I had never been much into reading or writing in the manner that I did in that course

[chargers21]

One of the few things my 4 year degree has instilled in me is a deep and profound hatred of philosophy.

I've heard the pre-Platonic ones are good though.

I've only taken political philosophy and I thought it was alright. never even took intro to philosophy but I did want to though

I don't hate philosophy but I also only minored in it.

I still only hate math.

Loved math, didn't get to have the fun of taking any normal math in college though tested out. Stats and physics don't count as math, right?

[Mikey]

hate math

so glad I only had to take the basic college algebra shit and stats

[oopsu812]

I like math because it gives me a little refuge from all the reading and writing heavy courses I have to take.

[Mikey]

went out with TLS peeps last night, can't bring myself to do LSAT shit today so gonna start like next week or in like august idk I'll see how I feel

I'm completely jealous of all you city slickers

come through and we will set something up with you!

I'm just a short 700 mile jog away

haha yeah. but honestly if you're ever in town, just let us know!

[oopsu812]

One of the few things my 4 year degree has instilled in me is a deep and profound hatred of philosophy.

I've heard the pre-Socratic ones are good though.

But how can I possibly live my life when I don't have a profound knowledge of aesthetics or stoicism or anything like that?

[Alexandros]

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[chewinggum]

One of the few things my 4 year degree has instilled in me is a deep and profound hatred of philosophy.

I've heard the pre-Platonic ones are good though.

I've only taken political philosophy and I thought it was alright. never even took intro to philosophy but I did want to though

I don't hate philosophy but I also only minored in it.

I still only hate math.

Loved math, didn't get to have the fun of taking any normal math in college though tested out. Stats and physics don't count as math, right?

Stats counts as math to me. Stats is what makes me hate math.

I really really hated stats. I can't stress it enough. But it was a prereq for a research class (that I ended up loving) so it was unavoidable