Lun yu vs Γοργίας: Which Should You Read?

Lun yu Confucius · 1750 ★★★★☆ 3.7 132 pages · ≈ 2 h 27 m · Demanding

Here is a translation of the recorded thoughts and deeds that best remember Confucius - informed for the first time by the manuscript version found at Dingzhou in 1973, a partial text dating to 55 b.c.e. and only made…

Γοργίας Plato · 1827 ★★★★☆ 3.9 134 pages · ≈ 2 h 29 m · Demanding

There is a well-known saying that the whole of Western Philosophy is footnotes of Plato. This is because his writings have set the schema that philosophy can be said to have followed ever since. Following under the…