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Single Idea 1644
[filed under theme 2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic
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Full Idea
The dialectical capacity - you won't give it to anyone else, I suspect, except to whoever philosophises purely and justly.
Clarification
'Dialectic' is the impersonal pursuit of truth
Gist of Idea
Dialectic should only be taught to those who already philosophise well
Source
Plato (The Sophist [c.359 BCE], 253e)
Book Ref
Plato: 'The Sophist', ed/tr. Bernadete,Seth [University of Chicago 1986], p.49
The
37 ideas
with the same theme
[approaching truth by discussion and analysis]:
164
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It is legitimate to play the devil's advocate
[Socrates]
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13778
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A dialectician is someone who knows how to ask and to answer questions
[Plato]
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8937
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Plato's 'Parmenides' is the greatest artistic achievement of the ancient dialectic
[Hegel on Plato]
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2151
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Dialectic is the only method of inquiry which uproots the things which it takes for granted
[Plato]
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2154
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The ability to take an overview is the distinguishing mark of a dialectician
[Plato]
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4011
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For Plato, rationality is a vision of and love of a cosmic rational order
[Plato, by Taylor,C]
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287
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Good analysis involves dividing things into appropriate forms without confusion
[Plato]
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1644
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Dialectic should only be taught to those who already philosophise well
[Plato]
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23891
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Two contradictories force us to find a relation which will correlate them
[Plato, by Weil]
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5847
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It is the role of dialectic to survey syllogisms
[Aristotle]
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2677
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Dialectic aims to start from generally accepted opinions, and lead to a contradiction
[Aristotle]
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12260
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Dialectic starts from generally accepted opinions
[Aristotle]
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7282
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Disagreement means you do not understand at all
[Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu)]
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2670
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Epicurus despises and laughs at the whole of dialectic
[Epicurus, by Cicero]
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20768
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Like spiderswebs, dialectical arguments are clever but useless
[Ariston, by Diog. Laertius]
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20776
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Dialectics is mastery of question and answer form
[Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
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2661
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Dialectic is speech cast in the form of logical argument
[Cicero]
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3035
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Dialectic involves conversations with short questions and brief answers
[Diog. Laertius]
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22102
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Arguing with opponents uncovers truths, and restrains falsehoods
[Aquinas]
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5602
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The free dialectic opposition of arguments is an invaluable part of the sceptical method
[Kant]
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15615
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Older metaphysics became dogmatic, by assuming opposed assertions must be true and false
[Hegel]
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21767
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Dialectic is seen in popular proverbs like 'pride comes before a fall'
[Hegel]
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15638
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Dialectic is the moving soul of scientific progression, the principle which binds science together
[Hegel]
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15639
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Socratic dialectic is subjective, but Plato made it freely scientific and objective
[Hegel]
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21766
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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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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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20952
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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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19445
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A dialectician has to be his own opponent
[Feuerbach]
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19444
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Each proposition has an antithesis, and truth exists as its refutation
[Feuerbach]
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2897
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With dialectics the rabble gets on top
[Nietzsche]
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19630
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No great idea ever emerged from a dialogue
[Cioran]
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21842
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Don't assess ideas for truth or justice; look for another idea, and establish a relationship with it
[Deleuze]
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21850
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Dualisms can be undone from within, by tracing connections, and drawing them to a new path
[Deleuze]
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8213
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I try to analyse certain verbal concepts which block and confuse the dialectical process
[Derrida]
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7982
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Instead of thesis and antithesis leading to synthesis, they now cancel out, and the conflict is levelled
[Baudrillard]
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13883
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The best way to understand a philosophical idea is to defend it
[Wright,C]
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4635
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Dialectic aims at unified truth, unlike analysis, which divides into parts
[Baggini /Fosl]
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