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Single Idea 2801
[filed under theme 2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 7. Status of Reason
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Full Idea
The element that can use its intelligence to look ahead is by nature ruler and master, while that which has the bodily strength to do the actual work is by nature a slave.
Gist of Idea
Intelligence which looks ahead is a natural master, while bodily strength is a natural slave
Source
Aristotle (Politics [c.332 BCE], 1252a30)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Politics', ed/tr. Sinclair,T.A. /Saunders,T. [Penguin 1992], p.57
A Reaction
I claim that the two distinguishing features of humanity are prescience and meta-thought, so I can't really disagree with this.
The
17 ideas
with the same theme
[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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