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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'. |
2151 | Dialectic is the only method of inquiry which uproots the things which it takes for granted [Plato] |
Full Idea: Dialectic is the only field of inquiry whose quest for certainty causes it to uproot the things it takes for granted in the course of its journey. | |
From: Plato (The Republic [c.374 BCE], 533c) |
2154 | The ability to take an overview is the distinguishing mark of a dialectician [Plato] |
Full Idea: The ability to take an overview is the distinguishing mark of a dialectician. | |
From: Plato (The Republic [c.374 BCE], 537c) |
4011 | For Plato, rationality is a vision of and love of a cosmic rational order [Plato, by Taylor,C] |
Full Idea: In Plato's theory, to be rational is to have a vision of rational order, and to love this order. | |
From: report of Plato (The Republic [c.374 BCE], 537d) by Charles Taylor - Sources of the Self §4.1 | |
A reaction: There may be a worrying elitism in this, but it helps to pinpoint the sense in which 'all philosophers are Platonists'. |
2093 | You must never go against what you actually believe [Plato] |
Full Idea: You must never go against what you actually believe. | |
From: Plato (The Republic [c.374 BCE], 350e) |
2130 | People often merely practice eristic instead of dialectic, because they don't analyse the subject-matter [Plato] |
Full Idea: People often think they are practising dialectic when they are practising eristic; this is because of their inability to conduct the enquiry by dividing the subject-matter into its various aspects. | |
From: Plato (The Republic [c.374 BCE], 454a) |