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Originally Posted by Glice
See, I would argue that there are some things that there's no essential need to read. Plato's writing is so entrenched in large slews of Western philosophy that you don't even need to read him. Nietzsche, yes. Plato, no. There's a few subtleties and nuances that you'll miss without reading Plato, but you're life won't be enriched any by ploughing through. Seneca's Medea, that's what you want.
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I think that is quite ridiculous. Should you be so content to read the footnotes of a book instead the book itself in order to save time? I would say the legs of the table are the most essential element to the structure of a table yet you seem to suggest that they are not because the table apparently already stands. Nietzsche himself can be found in the character of Callicles in the
Gorgias!