
HoP 037 - Hugh Benson on Aristotelian Method
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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How Does an Inquiry Begin?
The word paria means puzzle or eri. It's sort of centred in in socratic philosophy, as many of your podcasts mention. One thing i wanted to ask you is, if we're thinking about inquiry, how does an inquiry begin? And socrates seems to have thought that this was a really difficult puzzle. Do you think hat that's actually a good puzzle? I'm not sure. But certainly plato and aristotle were worried about beginnings. That the greek for that is probably rk. They worry about devising a kind of systematic, reliable, method of inquiry.
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