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20955 | Art can make reason more all-inclusive, by articulating what seemed inexpressible [Bowie] |
Full Idea: The early German Romantics argued that art pointed to a more all-inclusive conception of reason, which can offer ways of articulating what is not conceptually accessible. | |
From: Andrew Bowie (Introduction to German Philosophy [2003], 5 'Reason') | |
A reaction: [This is Novalis, F.Schlegel, Schleiermacher, and Hölderlin] I'm in favour of expanding reason, to include assessment of situations and coherence, rather than just stepwise reasoning. Not sure that art 'articulates' something new. |
623 | It is readily agreed that thinking is the most godlike of things in our experience [Aristotle] |
Full Idea: It is readily agreed that thinking is the most godlike of things in our experience. | |
From: Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 1074b11) |