Single Idea 4011

[catalogued under 2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic]

Full Idea

In Plato's theory, to be rational is to have a vision of rational order, and to love this order.

Gist of Idea

For Plato, rationality is a vision of and love of a cosmic rational order

Source

report of Plato (The Republic [c.371 BCE], 537d) by Charles Taylor - Sources of the Self §4.1

Book Reference

Taylor,Charles: 'Sources of the Self' [CUP 1992], p.92


A Reaction

There may be a worrying elitism in this, but it helps to pinpoint the sense in which 'all philosophers are Platonists'.