What relevance (other than historical) does ancient philosophy

>>9363265
i think the real no bullshit value of philosophy and maybe this is because i'm embarrassingly one of those new sincerity goons is that it allows you to empathize and understand another person's pov. like yeah if you don't value understanding where someone's coming from a lot of philosophy is quite useless, ancient or no, but that's really what it's primary value is to me anyways. like you can't understand everything about a person but you can understand the principals that lead them to thinking that way

Nobody in the 20th century listened to Plato on how democracy can degenerate into tyranny, and it shows. I'm positive this century won't be different, and all this functional illiteracy isn't helping either.

>>9363265
there's no progress in philosophy

It's the source of all Western true vs. false/original vs. imitation values

>>9363265
None to you, please don't read any, we have enough plebs spouting dumb opinions on philsophy already.

Is 2000 years really that 'ancient'?
I can hardly remember that last decade of my life, it was that boring, and 2000 years is just 200 times that. People act as if greeks existed in the parallel dimension of anquity, but I feel that it's actually quite graspable. I'm sure if Plato was transported to our time, he'd easily intergrate.

>>9363265
Think about it. If these guys were the first serious thinkers and they said some things, the thinkers that followed them wouldn't want to repeat what they already said. So by reading them chances are that you will find some interesting ideas that have nonetheless never been repeated by modern philosophy.

>>9364071
Almost all social aspects are the same. There are however a lot of differences as to how society is run behind the scenes.