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Full Idea
What is reason itself? Something compounded from impressions of a certain kind.
Gist of Idea
Reason itself must be compounded from some of our impressions
Source
Epictetus (The Discourses [c.56], 1.20.05)
Book Ref
Epictetus: 'The Discourses, The Handbook, Fragments', ed/tr. Gill,C [Everyman 1995], p.48
A Reaction
This seems to be the only escape from the dead end attempts to rationally justify reason. Making reason a primitive absolute is crazy metaphysics.
Related Idea
Idea 23343 Because reason performs all analysis, we should analyse reason - but how? [Epictetus]