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Ideas for Hesiod, Amartya Sen and Georg W.F.Hegel
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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 1. On Reason
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Highest reason is aesthetic, and truth and good are subordinate to beauty [Hegel]
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21974
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The world seems rational to those who look at it rationally [Hegel]
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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 3. Pure Reason
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Let thought follow its own course, and don't interfere [Hegel]
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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 4. Aims of Reason
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What justifies reliance on reason? Is it just a tool? Why is it better than blind belief? [Sen]
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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 5. Objectivity
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Objectivity is not by correspondence, but by the historical determined necessity of Geist [Hegel, by Pinkard]
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Categories create objective experience, but are too conditioned by things to actually grasp them [Hegel]
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Subjective and objective are not firmly opposed, but merge into one another [Hegel]
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In politics and ethics, scrutiny from different perspectives is essential for objectivity [Sen]
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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 8. Naturalising Reason
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The structure of reason is a social and historical achievement [Hegel, by Pinkard]
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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 9. Limits of Reason
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Truth does not come from giving reasons for and against propositions [Hegel]
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2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 2. Sufficient Reason
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Making sufficient reason an absolute devalues the principle of non-contradiction [Hegel, by Meillassoux]
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2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 3. Non-Contradiction
21983
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Being and nothing are the same and not the same, which is the identity of identity and non-identity [Hegel]
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21985
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The so-called world is filled with contradiction [Hegel]
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If truth is just non-contradiction, we must take care that our basic concepts aren't contradictory [Hegel]
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2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic
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Dialectic is seen in popular proverbs like 'pride comes before a fall' [Hegel]
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Dialectic is the moving soul of scientific progression, the principle which binds science together [Hegel]
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Socratic dialectic is subjective, but Plato made it freely scientific and objective [Hegel]
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21978
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Hegel's dialectic is not thesis-antithesis-synthesis, but usually negation of negation of the negation [Hegel, by Moore,AW]
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Older metaphysics became dogmatic, by assuming opposed assertions must be true and false [Hegel]
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Rather than in three stages, Hegel presented his dialectic as 'negation of the negation' [Hegel, by Bowie]
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Dialectic is the instability of thoughts generating their opposite, and then new more complex thoughts [Hegel, by Houlgate]
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