W. K. C. Guthrie's 5 volume History of Greek Philosophy is thee thing for me to get, but they are pricey, and only volumes 1 and 3 are in the Kindle format, I've looked around and physical copies seem to be in the triple digits all round.
I'll get 1 and 3 when I can, but I mustn't rush it, and make use of what I already have, and to scratch that Presocratic itch, to watch some videos, lectures, and get this slightly more affordable tome of over 800 pages
Alot of the info on these guys come from the 2 biggies Plato and Aristotle, and I have those lovable fellers, so time spent with them will be good, because i'm all for Ancient Greek and Rome period. And other swell resources like Diogenes Laertius.
I have to soak in Homer, breathe Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.
But the fascination is with Philosophy, and even the Roman Stoics are falling in my priorities now as they feel too much like Pauline epistles.
For myself, and not telling anyone else what to do, but for my mental health's sake, I banish all reading of Christian sources, unless it's someone like Irenaeus for Gnostic beliefs, oh and Tertullian has some of that stuff too. But the time for Gnosticism is long away. Now is for total immersion, implementing all the tools the internet affords without much cost, unless it's for books.
It's gonna be great fun to be seeing what the official first thinkers were thinking, forming my favorites, will I like Heraclitus best, or will Pythagoras hypnotize me with mathematical splendor?
I always get to what I really want to get to when i'm dying for sleep, so I can't wait to be all rested up, and forsake cinema habitually, so I can in a sense forget what kind of times we're living in, forgetting here is not that of escapism, but that of needing in a dire manner to see and hear what was going on in the world of thought way back, and there ought to be many an instance where it will speak directly to the conundrums of the present.
If I could sway anyone in any way, it is to research the past for potential answers for the now.
What a day!!! It was worth it, and if I do anything else here in the coming days, weeks, months and years, it shall be of other matters, sparingly, and if I ever get some things driven into my thick skull, I could then see how I could communicate such things, or if such attainment would mean not bothering, but to suffuse my actions with a better grasp of things, to see that my words even if well articulated, and to an extent sound, would perhaps be wasted effort, and even worse, the dreaded dilly dallying. {shivers}
