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Single Idea 12963
[filed under theme 2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 7. Status of Reason
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Full Idea
To speak against reason is to speak against truth, for reason is a chain of truths.
Gist of Idea
Opposing reason is opposing truth, since reason is a chain of truths
Source
Gottfried Leibniz (New Essays on Human Understanding [1704], 2.21)
Book Ref
Leibniz,Gottfried: 'New Essays on Human Understanding', ed/tr. Remnant/Bennett [CUP 1996], p.199
A Reaction
Truth has a talismanic quality here (which it didn't always have). This is a lovely slogan for defenders of the Enlightenment. It forces modern critics of the Enlightenment (Adorno etc) to launch an attack on truth, which is a doomed line.
The
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[importance of reason in human life]:
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7989
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Seek salvation in the wisdom of reason
[Anon (Bhag)]
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362
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The greatest misfortune for a person is to develop a dislike for argument
[Plato]
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623
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It is readily agreed that thinking is the most godlike of things in our experience
[Aristotle]
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2801
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Intelligence which looks ahead is a natural master, while bodily strength is a natural slave
[Aristotle]
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501
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Reason is a more powerful persuader than gold
[Democritus (attr)]
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23248
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Early empiricists said reason was just a useless concept introduced by philosophers
[Galen, by Frede,M]
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2857
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Since Plato all philosophers have followed the herd, except Descartes, stuck in superficial reason
[Nietzsche on Descartes]
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6222
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If a decision is in accord with right reason, everyone can agree with it
[Cumberland]
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12526
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Opposition to reason is mad
[Locke]
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12963
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Opposing reason is opposing truth, since reason is a chain of truths
[Leibniz]
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3807
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Reason is and ought to be the slave of the passions
[Hume]
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6912
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For Fichte there is no God outside the ego, and 'our religion is reason'
[Fichte, by Feuerbach]
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2896
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I want to understand the Socratic idea that 'reason equals virtue equals happiness'
[Nietzsche]
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4530
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Reason is a mere idiosyncrasy of a certain species of animal
[Nietzsche]
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20379
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Reason is just another organic drive, developing late, and fighting for equality
[Nietzsche]
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21945
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Foucault originally felt that liberating reason had become an instrument of domination
[Foucault, by Gutting]
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18543
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Do aesthetic reasons count as reasons, if they are rejectable without contradiction?
[Scruton]
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