Single Idea 8932

[catalogued under 2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 9. Limits of Reason]

Full Idea

The way of asserting a proposition, adducing reasons for it, and in the same way refuting its opposite by reasons, is not the form in which truth can appear.

Gist of Idea

Truth does not come from giving reasons for and against propositions

Source

Georg W.F.Hegel (Phenomenology of Spirit [1807], Pref 48)

Book Reference

Hegel,Georg W.F.: 'Phenomenology of Spirit', ed/tr. Miller,A.V. /Findlay,J.N. [OUP 1977], p.28


A Reaction

I can't see Plato or Aristotle agreeing with this. It is obviously the prelude to Hegel's dialectical account of reasoning. However, if we don't believe things because we have good reason to, I'm not sure where we shoud start.