Full Idea
Can that which is the ground of rationality in all else be itself properly called rational?
Gist of Idea
How can the ground of rationality be itself rational?
Source
William James (The Sentiment of Rationality [1882], p.25)
A Reaction
This is the perennial problem in deciding grounds, and in deciding what to treat as primitive. The stoics see the whole of nature as rational. Cf how can the ground of what is physical be itself physical?
Book Reference
James,William: 'Selected Writings of William James', ed/tr. Bird,Graham [Everyman 1995], p.25
Related Idea
Idea 21393 Stoics believed that rational capacity in man (logos) is embodied in the universe [Stoic school, by Long]