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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'New System and Explanation of New System' and 'The Art of Rhetoric'

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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 1. On Reason
224 When questions are doubtful we should concentrate not on objects but on ideas of the intellect [Plato]
     Full Idea: Doubtful questions should not be discussed in terms of visible objects or in relation to them, but only with reference to ideas conceived by the intellect.
     From: Plato (Parmenides [c.364 BCE], 135e)
23250 Desired responsible actions result either from rational or from irrational desire [Aristotle]
     Full Idea: And of responsible actions, some are done through habit, some through desire, and of these some through rational and some through irrational desire.
     From: Aristotle (The Art of Rhetoric [c.350 BCE], 1369a01)
     A reaction: Identified by Michael Frede, to illustrate reason having its own distinctive type of desire ('Boulesis'). I suspect that the rational desires are the morally good desires.
2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 5. Opposites
232 Opposites are as unlike as possible [Plato]
     Full Idea: Opposites are as unlike as possible.
     From: Plato (Parmenides [c.364 BCE], 159a)
2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic
8937 Plato's 'Parmenides' is the greatest artistic achievement of the ancient dialectic [Hegel on Plato]
     Full Idea: Plato's 'Parmenides' is the greatest artistic achievement of the ancient dialectic.
     From: comment on Plato (Parmenides [c.364 BCE]) by Georg W.F.Hegel - Phenomenology of Spirit Pref 71
     A reaction: It is a long way from the analytic tradition of philosophy to be singling out a classic text for its 'artistic' achievement. Eventually we may even look back on, say, Kripke's 'Naming and Necessity' and see it in that light.
5847 It is the role of dialectic to survey syllogisms [Aristotle]
     Full Idea: It belongs to dialectic to survey equally all kinds of syllogism.
     From: Aristotle (The Art of Rhetoric [c.350 BCE], 1355a08)
     A reaction: Since dialectic is central to philosophy, this implies that philosophers ought to be students of logic. This duty seems to me to be taken more seriously in the analytical tradition than in the 'continental' tradition.