Single Idea 5891

[catalogued under 1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / e. Philosophy as reason]

Full Idea

Philosophy consists in the collection of rational arguments. [Philosophia ex rationum collatione constet]

Gist of Idea

Philosophy is the collection of rational arguments

Source

M. Tullius Cicero (Tusculan Disputations [c.44 BCE], IV.xxxviii.84)

Book Reference

Cicero: 'Tusculan Disputations', ed/tr. King,J.E. [Harvard Loeb 1927], p.423


A Reaction

A nice epigraph for this database. Philosophy is, I trust, a little more than that, because you don't just hide them away in a drawer. But if you arrange them nicely in a museum (a website, for example), not a lot more can be done.

Related Idea

Idea 19241 An idea on its own isn't an idea, because they are continuous systems [Peirce]