Why does everyone call western philosophy a series of footnoes to Plato but nobody ever calls western literature a series of footnotes to Shakespeare?

Did you think you were being smart by asking this

>>24544312 (OP)
Because the former is true, and the latter isn’t. You could say it’s a series of footnotes to Homer.

>>24544312 (OP)
>everyone
You mean retards, not everyone.

>>24544312 (OP)
they dont it was only whitehead and he was skully

>>24544312 (OP)
>western literature
>anglospeare
Anglos are fascinating creatures

>>24544338
this is based thoughbeit

>>24544312 (OP)
Because its a series of footnotes to Cervantes

>>24544494
effeminate behavior

>>24544312 (OP)
Actually the two are very similar, probably due to the heavy influence of Plutarch on Shakespeare but in the way Shakespeare eludes ideology from his fundamental distancing. To put it another way, it's unclear how much of Shakespeare is in his characters, and a great weight of Shakespeare criticism almost directly parallels the Socratic problem. It's why theatre companies teach actors multiple readings of the same characters.

>>24544319
They used an Amelia watson so I would recon they didn't

>>24544338
The english knew about italians.

>>24544338
>>24544869
Kek, all of this is classical shitposting

>>24544338

>>24544312 (OP)
First year anything will tell you that the entirety of conceptual knowledge is a series of corresponding footnotes that charts back into the mists of oral tradition and is likely unreliable. This is why all roads end at silence or a walk in the forest and any perpetual enquiry will break your mind

>>24544312 (OP)
Because it's not. Western literature is a series of footnotes to John Lyly.

>>24544869
>Implying a*glos arent the biggest pedos
>implying a*glos arent the greediest merchant bugmen to ever walk the face of the earth

>>24544312 (OP)
>Why does everyone call western philosophy a series of footnoes to Plato
I haven't figured this out yet. It would seem that Plato belongs to birthright while Aristotle belongs to initiate. Philosophy is effectively dead without birthright thought.

>>24546109
>This is why all roads end at silence or a walk in the forest and any perpetual enquiry will break your mind
It's true, most philosophy professors I've known have been certifiably insane.

>>24544312 (OP)
Hard to do when nobody cared for him except the English for a long time

>>24546606
Keep speaking the tongue of your master