“an attempt to read the Classic Greek thinkers the other way round”

Hans-Georg Gadamer:

I ask that the reader take what follows as an attempt to read the classic Greek thinkers the other way round as it were—that is, not from the perspective of the assumed superiority of modernity, which believes itself beyond the ancient philosophers because it possesses an infinitely refined logic, but instead with the conviction that philosophy is a human experience that remains the same and that characterizes the human being as such, and that there is no progress in it, but only participation. (The Idea of the Good in Platonic-Aristotelian Philosophy, p. 6)