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Do you need to learn the old dialects in which older philosophy is written?

What I believe you're asking is, 'is learning the mother-tongue of a philosopher, or the language any given philosopher produces in, necessary for understanding her or his philosophical work?' … Are you an aspiring scholar or a lay reader comfortable with reading philosophical works in translation, which is to say, outside of their original language. …
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