tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11017234.post112672463790244837..comments2023-11-16T07:12:40.867-05:00Comments on Dissoi Blogoi: What's the Use?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11017234.post-1126805437150441502005-09-15T13:30:00.000-04:002005-09-15T13:30:00.000-04:00Sam,I agree with the first part of your statement,...Sam,<BR/><BR/>I agree with the first part of your statement, about their embracing rigorous arguments, but not with the second, viz. that this went along with a wholesale rejection of 'superstition' or 'authority'. I'll try to explain this in a post.<BR/><BR/>MichaelMichael Pakalukhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00233648836210188722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11017234.post-1126749915368446702005-09-14T22:05:00.000-04:002005-09-14T22:05:00.000-04:004. Ancient philosophers thought about the most imp...4. Ancient philosophers thought about the most important questions, ethical, epistemological, and metaphysical (What makes for a good life? What is justice? What can we know, and how do we know it? What is the world made of? Why do things have the properties they do?) with a distinctive methodology, involving deductive arguments of remarkable rigor. To think like the ancients is to think that questions of fundamental philosophical importance can be solved by using logic, rather than by following superstition or authority.Sam Ricklesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16662254589824229160noreply@blogger.com