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'The Strangest Man', 'Meditations' and 'fragments/reports'
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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 2. Logos
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The Stoics distinguished spoken logos from logos within the mind [Stoic school, by Plotinus]
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Descartes impoverished the classical idea of logos, and it no longer covered human experience [Roochnik on Descartes]
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Stoics study canons, criteria and definitions, in order to find the truth [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
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Stoics believed that rational capacity in man (logos) is embodied in the universe [Stoic school, by Long]
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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 4. Aims of Reason
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Reason says don't assent to uncertain principles, just as much as totally false ones [Descartes]
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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 7. Status of Reason
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Since Plato all philosophers have followed the herd, except Descartes, stuck in superficial reason [Nietzsche on Descartes]
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2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic
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Dialectics is mastery of question and answer form [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
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2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 4. Circularity
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It is circular to make truth depend on believing God's existence is true [Arnauld on Descartes]
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Descartes is right that in the Christian view only God can guarantee the reliability of senses [Nietzsche on Descartes]
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Once it is clear that there is a God who is no deceiver, I conclude that clear and distinct perceptions must be true [Descartes]
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