(February 17, 2015 at 9:57 pm)Nestor Wrote: Shit, my goal was to spend a year on the history of Western philosophy but it is quickly becoming a monumental task just touching the surface of all the ancients!
Also, I just ordered Thucydides' The Peloponnesian War and a compilation of three plays by Aristophanes because I really wanted to read Clouds.
Ha, ha, ha! The lack of information regarding the presocratics has lulled you into the idea that studying western philosophy will take no time! If you spend the rest of your life on this one thing, western philosophy, you will never learn it all.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.