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Single Idea 2154
[filed under theme 2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic
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Full Idea
The ability to take an overview is the distinguishing mark of a dialectician.
Clarification
'Dialectician' follow the finest sort of reasoning, which humbly pursues truth
Gist of Idea
The ability to take an overview is the distinguishing mark of a dialectician
Source
Plato (The Republic [c.374 BCE], 537c)
Book Ref
Plato: 'Republic', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [OUP 1993], p.271
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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19444
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Each proposition has an antithesis, and truth exists as its refutation
[Feuerbach]
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19445
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A dialectician has to be his own opponent
[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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