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Ideas for 'works', 'Metaphysics of Morals I: Doctrine of Right' and 'Meditations'

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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]

1569	Descartes impoverished the classical idea of logos, and it no longer covered human experience [Roochnik on Descartes]

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

2248	Reason says don't assent to uncertain principles, just as much as totally false ones [Descartes]

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

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 7. Status of Reason

2857	Since Plato all philosophers have followed the herd, except Descartes, stuck in superficial reason [Nietzsche on Descartes]