[travel] Tell me more about the dead white people

[mattbell]

My college humanities courses tended to avoid the canon of dead white people at all costs, instead focusing on alternative voices, indigenous cultures, oppressed peoples and the like. Some of it was very interesting, some of it wasn't. However, after a visit to the stunning Athens Archaeological museum, which showed me firsthand the achievement's of Athens' Golden Age, I want to learn more about the intellectual culture that spawned the world's first democracy, a rich theatrical tradition, and numerous other achievements. To those of you who sought out the traditional classics, I ask what you would recommend, keeping in mind that I'm on the road so online material is preferred. I assume it's all well out of copyright, even the translations.

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[spoonless.livejournal.com]

Ok, that's pretty much exactly the definition I had in mind and what I presented to my friend as what I thought of as metaphysics. I think what happened is that he heard a few talks in a row by philosophers visiting his school which were all centered around a particular set of questions, and he got a more narrow view of what metaphysics was than what it is. This is what we both decided was probably the case after our discussion, but this helps confirm it.