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Single Idea 350
[filed under theme 2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 3. Pure Reason
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Full Idea
When philosophers investigate with the help of the body they are led astray, but through reflection the soul gets a clear view of the facts.
Gist of Idea
In investigation the body leads us astray, but the soul gets a clear view of the facts
Source
Plato (Phaedo [c.382 BCE], 065c)
Book Ref
Plato: 'The Last Days of Socrates', ed/tr. Tredennick,Hugh [Penguin 1969], p.109
The
13 ideas
with the same theme
[idea of reason as independent of natural constraints]:
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350
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In investigation the body leads us astray, but the soul gets a clear view of the facts
[Plato]
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17194
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Reason only explains what is universal, so it is timeless, under a certain form of eternity
[Spinoza]
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4840
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Reason perceives things under a certain form of eternity
[Spinoza]
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19335
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Reasonings have a natural ordering in God's understanding, but only a temporal order in ours
[Leibniz]
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5578
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Pure reason deals with concepts in the understanding, not with objects
[Kant]
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5603
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Pure reason exists outside of time
[Kant]
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5616
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Pure reason is only concerned with itself because it deals with understandings, not objects
[Kant]
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5628
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Reason hates to be limited in its speculations
[Kant]
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21054
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Reason enables the unbounded extension of our rules and intentions
[Kant]
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22081
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Let thought follow its own course, and don't interfere
[Hegel]
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10804
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Thoughts have a natural order, to which human thinking is drawn
[Frege, by Yablo]
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8251
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The logical space of reasons is a natural phenomenon, and it is the realm of freedom
[McDowell]
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3651
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Perceiving necessary connections is the essence of reasoning
[Bonjour]
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