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7/24/2025, 9:14:37 PM
Would anyone like to read a Plato dialogue a day with me? We can split longer dialogues into half a day or a book (chapter) a day.
I would be reading chronologically in the conventional order, so elenchic dialogues first, then middle sophistics, then Republic, then the difficult later ones, and finishing with the Laws.
Then we could do major texts of Aristotle, probably Categories, Physics, Metaphysics, On the Heavens, On Generation and Corruption, On the Soul, and some of the Parva Naturalia. Then I would probably read anthologies of Hellenistic philosophy, then important texts like the Derveni papyrus and Orphic Gold Tablets, Middle Platonists like Plutarch, Dream of Scipio, then Plotinus, Proclus, Iamblichus, etc. Eventually I want to move on to gnosticism, alchemy, and hermeticism/theosophy, and pivot to Islamic philosophy and theosophy, then medieval magic, then the Renaissance and beyond. I'd be willing to take a long detour into Philo if people are interested because I have the Yonge edition.
I just want to have a place to discuss these things. I was thinking of making an ongoing series of /lit/ threads as a sort of journal of my thoughts and questions as I read, and people can just join in as they please. But it would be fun if people read even a few of the texts in tandem with me. As I read the Plato, I'm going to read Guthrie on the Sophists and Orphics, the new Loeb compilations of the Sophists, Huffman on Philolaus, Jaeger's Theology of the Greeks, Dodds, Snell, Lloyd and Cornfield on Greek science, Burkert on Pythagoras and Guthrie's Pythagoras sourcebook, Dillon on the early and middle Academy, and some other stuff. So I will hopefully be able to say non-retarded things that make my readings more than just "some guy reading Plato."
I'm planning for this to be a year-long project or so. Would people at least help me keep the threads bumped? If it helps, and if I actually stick with it instead of talking big and doing nothing like a retard, we could turn it into a Metaphysics General and turn /lit/ into a Medicean academy or Rosicrucian invisible college or something.
I would be reading chronologically in the conventional order, so elenchic dialogues first, then middle sophistics, then Republic, then the difficult later ones, and finishing with the Laws.
Then we could do major texts of Aristotle, probably Categories, Physics, Metaphysics, On the Heavens, On Generation and Corruption, On the Soul, and some of the Parva Naturalia. Then I would probably read anthologies of Hellenistic philosophy, then important texts like the Derveni papyrus and Orphic Gold Tablets, Middle Platonists like Plutarch, Dream of Scipio, then Plotinus, Proclus, Iamblichus, etc. Eventually I want to move on to gnosticism, alchemy, and hermeticism/theosophy, and pivot to Islamic philosophy and theosophy, then medieval magic, then the Renaissance and beyond. I'd be willing to take a long detour into Philo if people are interested because I have the Yonge edition.
I just want to have a place to discuss these things. I was thinking of making an ongoing series of /lit/ threads as a sort of journal of my thoughts and questions as I read, and people can just join in as they please. But it would be fun if people read even a few of the texts in tandem with me. As I read the Plato, I'm going to read Guthrie on the Sophists and Orphics, the new Loeb compilations of the Sophists, Huffman on Philolaus, Jaeger's Theology of the Greeks, Dodds, Snell, Lloyd and Cornfield on Greek science, Burkert on Pythagoras and Guthrie's Pythagoras sourcebook, Dillon on the early and middle Academy, and some other stuff. So I will hopefully be able to say non-retarded things that make my readings more than just "some guy reading Plato."
I'm planning for this to be a year-long project or so. Would people at least help me keep the threads bumped? If it helps, and if I actually stick with it instead of talking big and doing nothing like a retard, we could turn it into a Metaphysics General and turn /lit/ into a Medicean academy or Rosicrucian invisible college or something.
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