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How many of you have actually read some or one of the following?
Replies: 59Last Post April 28 8:13am by Nikki
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I've read more than one work by more than one of those listed authors. 30 32%
I've read more than one work by one of those authors. 9 9%
I've read one work by one of those authors. 20 21%
I've never read any of those. 18 19%
Who are those writers? 1 1%
I don't understand the poll I cheated to pass the Intellectual Test (which wasn't hard). 1 1%
I don't read. 1 1%
I've played with PlayDoh before. 11 12%
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How many of you have actually read one of the works of the following philosophers?  What they've written is a pretty good base for much of western philosophy.
Plato, Aristotle, Socrates
And these are not in the poll, but have any of you ever read Homer, or the novel Beowulf (not the name of an author).

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I've read more than one work by more than one of those listed authors.

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Quote: from HannahBEE at 6:06 pm on Oct. 27, 2007

I've read more than one work by more than one of those listed authors.

Because you chose to or because you were forced to?  And what did you read?

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Yes, both of them I was forced to read, but I will admit that I enjoyed some of both of them.

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Quote: from HannahBEE at 6:15 pm on Oct. 27, 2007

Yes, both of them I was forced to read, but I will admit that I enjoyed some of both of them.

Both of them being...?

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Quote: from Neugen at 3:29 pm on Oct. 27, 2007

Quote: from HannahBEE at 6:15 pm on Oct. 27, 2007

Yes, both of them I was forced to read, but I will admit that I enjoyed some of both of them.

Both of them being...?

Plato's The Republic
Homer's The Odyssey

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Plato, Aristotle and Socrates are not that representative of Western Philosophy. They represent only a small portion of it. Also, they where wrong in much of what they claimed.

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Haven't read any of them - deepest I've got is starting 'The Prince' by Machiavelli.

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Socrates didn't write.

He spoke. Plato wrote the discussions of Socrates

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Quote: from Moridin at 8:04 am on Oct. 28, 2007

Plato, Aristotle and Socrates are not that representative of Western Philosophy. They represent only a small portion of it. Also, they where wrong in much of what they claimed.

I realize they were wrong, that doesn't mean it isn't interesting.

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I've read the Odyssey for school. It's been years since I read it but I believe I enjoyed it.

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Quote: from obvious child at 10:46 pm on Oct. 28, 2007

Socrates didn't write.  

He spoke. Plato wrote the discussions of Socrates


The written discussions of Socrates are probably not completely representative of Socrates.

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Beowulf isn't a novel; it's an epic poem. And it is painful to read. Homer is slightly better, particularly the Iliad...the Odyssey tends to get repetitive.

It's also interesting to compare the philosophies of Plato and the philosophies of Aristotle. For one being taught by the other, they have some surprising and rather large fundamental differences.

But Moridin does have a point; the authors you've listed by no means come close to representing all of Western philosophy.

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Fuck Plato, Fuck Socrates, Fuck Aristotle.


I'm so glad my degree has so little to do with them

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Quote: from Blackadder at 1:54 pm on Oct. 29, 2007

Fuck Plato, Fuck Socrates, Fuck Aristotle.  

 
I'm so glad my degree has so little to do with them


My, but that's an intelligent position to take.

Have you ever read anything by any of them?

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