
HoP 060 - Walking on Eggshells - the Stoics on Logic
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Aristotle's Logic
Aristotelians insisted that philosophical disciplines had to be taken in a strict order, and that one should start with logic. The stoics disagreed: For them, philosophy was an organic unity,. A question raised in ethics could lead you to physics or logic, and vice versa. Ultimately, wisdom consists in mastery of all three parts - Expertes in only one would not merely be inadequate but impossible.
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