Method in theology: an organon for our time

Dialectic: Antiquity to the Renaissance

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Oxford: Clarendon Press, vol. Owen Oxford: Clarendon Press, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. Quoted in L. Chartularium Universitatis Parisiensis , ed. Denifle and A. Chatelain, vol. I Paris, pp. For the importance of dialectic in the trivium in the late medieval curricula, see J.

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Advanced search. Submit an article Journal homepage. Socrates was asking was what courage is and not what is courage. The opponent would suggest that courage would be fighting violently without fear.

Socrates points out the short coming of this elucidation, by saying that the meaning of courage would be to broad, including the barbarous, cruel act, too. Then, the definition will be more refined such that courage is now clarified as the virtue of valor Ultimately, such a process of dialectic should elicit and arrive at the truth. As this example reveals, the method of dialectic requires in the ideal case two mutually independent mind pursuing the truth starting with an tentative definition of the nature of thing such as courage, justice, beauty and good and by critically appraising the proposed "definition" from the other's insight into the defects of such a "definition" by stipulating and eliciting the ultimate nature of thing.

It is the method, it is, according to our definition of method, the process of inquiry into reality itself with the controlled means through the careful dialogue. It is interesting to note that in Plato's early dialogues, Socrates usually never comes to the ultimate reality of a thing, the finial answer of his discourse, but some event interrupted their pursuit and the reader is left unanswered. This has something to do with the nature of the question itself too. Socrates was well aware of the ultimate goal of the dialectic and its value, although he may not be able to clearly elicit by logos words what it is.

This will become clearer when we discuss Plato's dialectic. Plato of course followed Socrates' footsteps, but he was a little more creative and ambitious and had the ability to "see" what reality is in the sense that he was able to go beyond the dialectic ultimately to have an insight into the "genuine reality. In this sense, Aristotle was right in contending that dialectic is the method to grasp by word the definition of what really is.

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However, the ultimate reality escapes the words, as Lao Tzu clearly stated at the beginning of his Tao Te Ching. Plato went beyond the limit of the position of logos to the viewpoint where one can have an evident insight into what reality is. There is a leap between the end of dialectic and the evident intuitive insight.

This leap cannot be jumped by dialectic or the position of logos alone. This clearly is found in Parmenides.

Take for example:. This "noein" or seeing immediate, intellectual intuition is not a logical inference, but an intuitive grasp by reason. This cognition is without any mediation. Thus, it may be natural that Plato inherited the intuitive cognitive faculty of nous for the predecessor. Now How Aristotle comprehended the dialectic as the method in philosophy? The best place to find this out is to look at his Topics. To rephrase this, our object is, according to Aristotle, to study the "dialectical syllogism.

The best examples of establishing the first principles by dialectic may be found in Aristotle's argument in Metaphysics T for the laws of contradiction and excluded middle. A problem is to be a question possessing either practical or theoretical interest, and on which either there is no current opinion, or there is a difference of opinion between the many and the wise, or among the many, or among the wise. A thesis is a paradoxical opinion of some celebrated philosopher," or a view which, though perhaps no one holds it, can be supported by argument.

Not all problems nor all theses are of course worth discussing. The most important aspect of the dialectic Aristotle discussed in Topics in the pursuit of knowledge is, as stated above, to discover and identify "t he first principles of the sciences, since they cannot themselves be scientifically proved, can be best approached from a study of common opinions such as dialectic provides. As pointed earlier, Aristotle was trying to be creative and thus competitive with Plato.

On the other hand, as long as dialectic was employed extensively by Plato, Aristotle took it as a philosophical method for granted and secondly Aristotle looked at it as being less significant than it perhaps actually was. In one place, Aristotle stated that dialectic is an inductive method.

On the other place, he mentioned that dialectic is the method to obtain the definition of the nature of a thing. As the method of definition, Socrates was considered the founder of dialectic. We do not discuss this not so in details in this section.

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We simply point out how Aristotle conceived this method of philosophy in order that we shall be able to deal with his inquiry into the syllogism. Glorious as it may sound, the syllogism was Aristotle's discovery and invention in its originality by himself. In this sense, as well as in the sense of how long the syllogism was the representative for deduction, we cannot underestimate Aristotle's ingenuity and greatness of his philosophical investigation.

It is indeed an epoch-making to discover that the form, and not the content of a set of propositions, determines the validity or the invalidity of its argument Aristotle's investigation into the deductive reasoning and its process as a process of thought at a psychological one attained the fruit in his discovering the syllogism as a deductive argument consisting one conclusion and two premisses. The question which lead Aristotle to investigate the deductive inference and its process lies perhaps in his interest and endeavor in exploring the conditions of scientific knowledg e.

This is declared in the beginning of Aristotle's Analytica Prior and he had begun with the forms of proposition and their relationships for the conditions for possible scientific knowledge. In this sense, Aristotle clearly understood "analytics" as the inquiry into the method of philosophy. According Aristotle, The necessary condition for any scientific knowledge the pursuit of knowledge must be at least be of the validity of each step it takes, and this is what observance of the rules of syllogism secures.

It is "an argument in which, certain things having been assumed, something other than these follows of necessity from their truth, without needing any term from outsid e. Naturally hereby Aristotle assumed with insufficient proof according to W.

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