Combining Texts

Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'Intro to Non-Classical Logic (1st ed)' and 'Against the Ethicists (one book)'

unexpand these ideas     |    start again     |     choose another area for these texts

display all the ideas for this combination of texts

---

2 ideas

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)

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 9. Limits of Reason

22752	Reasoning is impossible without a preconception [Sext.Empiricus]
	Full Idea: It is not possible either to seek or to doubt without a preconception.
	From: Sextus Empiricus (Against the Ethicists (one book) [c.180], II.22)
	A reaction: [Sextus quotes this from 'the sapient Epicurus'] I think this may be a message across the centuries to Hegel, who attempted this impossible feat. My picture of philosophy is a continual shift of the preconceptions, to explore thoroughly.