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Ideas for 'The Evolution of Logic', 'Phaedrus' and 'Neutral Relations'

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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy

162	Can we understand an individual soul without knowing the soul in general? [Plato]
	Full Idea: Do you think it possible to form an adequate conception of the nature of an individual soul without considering the nature of soul in general?
	From: Plato (Phaedrus [c.366 BCE], 270c)
	A reaction: Do animals understand anything (as opposed to simply being aware of things)?

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 2. Invocation to Philosophy

160	The highest ability in man is the ability to discuss unity and plurality in the nature of things [Plato]
	Full Idea: When I believe that I have found in anyone the ability to discuss unity and plurality as they exist in the nature of things, I follow his footsteps as if he was a god.
	From: Plato (Phaedrus [c.366 BCE], 266b)
	A reaction: This sounds like the problem of identity, which is at the heart of modern metaphysics.

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / d. Philosophy as puzzles

13477	The problems are the monuments of philosophy [Hart,WD]
	Full Idea: The real monuments of philosophy are its problems.
	From: William D. Hart (The Evolution of Logic [2010], 2)
	A reaction: Presumably he means '....rather than its solutions'. No other subject would be very happy with that sort of claim. Compare Idea 8243. A complaint against analytic philosophy is that it has achieved no consensus at all.