lostblackdog
04-26-2005, 03:12 AM
Okay, so I'm taking this Neoplatonic and Hellenistic philosophy course at my school, but in a way, I'm also not taking if you catch my drift here....
Eh, fuck it... So, I skipped a shitload of classes and my professor gave me a chance to redeem myself and earn an A in the course if I read the Complete Works of Plato and submit myself to an oral exam which will most likely be reminiscent of the Socratic method. This exam will have two professors there asking me questions about Plato, his philosophy, his metaphysics, his dialogues with other philosophers, his structural plans (e.g. the Republic), and his influence on Hellenistic and Neoplatonic philosophers as listed:
Lucretius
Seneca
Epictetus
Marcus Aurelius
Sextus Empiricus
Lucian
Cicero
Boethius
Now, I've been reading the ever loving shit out of Plato for the past four or five weeks, and my mind is oozing out of my skull. To top it all off, I have to write a paper that will show how Plato inspired Hellenistic and Neoplatonic thought, and this paper must be submitted before the exam so that both professors have an opportunity to read it. The exam is Thursday afternoon, and I am shitting blue bricks trying to organize and condense the MASSIVE amount of information I've been trudging through forever....
Can anyone out there help me find some good informative resources that might help me organize my chaos??????? I would be ETERNALLY GRATEFUL!!!! (dead.... couldn't leave that word just hangin', right?)
-Mac
Eh, fuck it... So, I skipped a shitload of classes and my professor gave me a chance to redeem myself and earn an A in the course if I read the Complete Works of Plato and submit myself to an oral exam which will most likely be reminiscent of the Socratic method. This exam will have two professors there asking me questions about Plato, his philosophy, his metaphysics, his dialogues with other philosophers, his structural plans (e.g. the Republic), and his influence on Hellenistic and Neoplatonic philosophers as listed:
Lucretius
Seneca
Epictetus
Marcus Aurelius
Sextus Empiricus
Lucian
Cicero
Boethius
Now, I've been reading the ever loving shit out of Plato for the past four or five weeks, and my mind is oozing out of my skull. To top it all off, I have to write a paper that will show how Plato inspired Hellenistic and Neoplatonic thought, and this paper must be submitted before the exam so that both professors have an opportunity to read it. The exam is Thursday afternoon, and I am shitting blue bricks trying to organize and condense the MASSIVE amount of information I've been trudging through forever....
Can anyone out there help me find some good informative resources that might help me organize my chaos??????? I would be ETERNALLY GRATEFUL!!!! (dead.... couldn't leave that word just hangin', right?)
-Mac