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Ideas for 'works', 'Human Knowledge: its scope and limits' and 'The Ethics'

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8 ideas

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 2. Logos

1575	For Aristotle logos is essentially the ability to talk rationally about questions of value [Roochnik on Aristotle]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 3. Pure Reason

17194

Reason only explains what is universal, so it is timeless, under a certain form of eternity [Spinoza]

4840	Reason perceives things under a certain form of eternity [Spinoza]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 4. Aims of Reason

17213

In so far as men live according to reason, they will agree with one another [Spinoza]

1589	Aristotle is the supreme optimist about the ability of logos to explain nature [Roochnik on Aristotle]

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 2. Sufficient Reason

4819	There is necessarily for each existent thing a cause why it should exist [Spinoza]

2. Reason / D. Definition / 4. Real Definition

8200	Aristotelian definitions aim to give the essential properties of the thing defined [Aristotle, by Quine]

2. Reason / D. Definition / 5. Genus and Differentia

4385	Aristotelian definition involves first stating the genus, then the differentia of the thing [Aristotle, by Urmson]