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Dialectic Aspects of Belief

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Raymond Ruyer

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Is there a specific form of dialectic reason as distinct from reason in the strict classical sense? It is very doubtful, and dialectic reason is very probably a myth. I will not discuss this point here. But there is no doubt that dialectic aspects of conscience do exist; they exist not only in the conscience of the scholar, but in conscience in general which, according to Gonseth, is always open, ever ready to revize itself, to doubt its provisional principles, to abandon the positions it had taken up.

Type
Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 15 , Issue 60 , December 1967 , pp. 64 - 79
Copyright
Copyright © 1967 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

References

1 R. Ruyer, "Le mythe de la ‘raison' dialectique," Revue de métaphysique et de morale, 1961.

2 Quoted by L. Wittgenstein, Philosophical Enquiries, II, x.

3 L. Wittgenstein, op. cit., p. 323.

4 S. Butler, The Notebooks (Johnathan Cape, 1926), vol. xx, p. 344.

5 By Antony Boucher.

6 R. Sheckley, Pilgrimage to Earth.

7 Verlaine, Chansons pour elle. Paraphraze: "You believe in fairy tales, in days of ill-luck, in dreams, I only believe in your lies. And my faith is so strong… that I live only for you."

8 S. Butler, Erewhon (London, 1910), p. 169.