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3738 | The hallmark of rationality is setting itself an end [Kant] |
Full Idea: Rational nature separates itself out from all other things by the fact that it sets itself an end. | |
From: Immanuel Kant (Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals [1785], 437.82) |
5969 | Chrysippus said the uncaused is non-existent [Chrysippus, by Plutarch] |
Full Idea: Chrysippus said that the uncaused is altogether non-existent. | |
From: report of Chrysippus (fragments/reports [c.240 BCE]) by Plutarch - 70: Stoic Self-contradictions 1045c | |
A reaction: The difficulty is to see what empirical basis there can be for such a claim, or what argument of any kind other than an intuition. Induction is the obvious answer, but Hume teaches us scepticism about any claim that 'there can be no exceptions'. |