Classical Theism, Philosophy, and Religion Forum / History of Philosophy Series

**Posted by iwpoe** 2/08/2016 12:17 am

I want to do a long series of posts wherein starting with something at least as early as the presocratics, I read through various texts in the history of philosophy.

I need a dedicated metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind person/people, and maybe somebody willing to keep a running set of interconnected notes or commentary or whatever. The former would offer consistent and regular remarks in his / their respective areas, and the notes guy would keep some kind of running narrative so that we don't lose track as we progressed through history.

I'll offer my own perspective and be responsible for finding and choosing the best texts available. For shorter texts, I'm inclined to record audio with my own equipment.

Everybody else would be welcome to say whatever they like.

Are there any takers?

**Posted by Dennis** 2/08/2016 5:35 am

This is very interesting and lucrative, I'm not sure how I can help. Metaphysics is my main fancy, however, I don't think I'm well-built enough to be able to carry through, but this is very interesting. Certainly catches my fancy.

**Posted by iwpoe** 2/08/2016 5:44 am

Dennis wrote:
This is very interesting and lucrative, I'm not sure how I can help. Metaphysics is my main fancy, however, I don't think I'm well-built enough to be able to carry through, but this is very interesting. Certainly catches my fancy.

Basically your job would be to read the excerpts with me and see if you can draw anything from them topically. I studied reading people like Heidegger and Hegel. I get really interested in both philosophical systems and the particular phenomena a thinker is trying to work out, even if he's got to get a lot of things really wrong to address his topic. This doesn't really lend itself immediately to whatever analytic metaphysicians are talking about today.

In short, you job is to keep me honest and prevent me from getting too caught up in the narrative. I'll tend to want to follow a thought into an open-ended space not to make final conclusions. That's not for every reader.