To begin with, reasoning can help us to reach higher levels of understanding, particularly when it is approached through Aristotle's dialectic method. ... Despite this argument, I still consider reason to be a solid foundation for philosophical inquiry as it is assumed when one reasons for philosophy, they use a logical form of reason ( which is considered  as the correct form of reason) "for  if we have a methodical procedure of inquiry, we will more easily be able to undertake the subject proposed to us." ... Aristotle's development of dialectic reason ensures that investigation ...

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He was focused on inductive reasoning while earlier Aristotle was focused on deductive reasoning. ... Bacon says, And there is yet a third class, consisting of those who out of faith and veneration mix their philosophy with theology and traditions; among whom the vanity of some has gone so far aside as to seek the origin of sciences among spirits and genii. So that this parent stock of errors "this false philosophy-is of three kinds ; the sophistical, the empirical, and the superstitious ."" (421) Bacon explains how it is not good to mix philosophy and superstition with theolog...

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Kant and the Theory of Human Knowledge Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) is generally recognized as the greatest philosopher since Plato and Aristotle. ... Kant and his philosophy was influenced by both Christianity and science and in seeing the most fundamental problems of philosophy in how to combine the two. ... One fundamental objective of his philosophy was to explain how scientific knowledge is possible. ...

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In contrast to the morality defined by Aristotle in his Nicomachaean Ethics, Creon shows that he is deaf to the knowledge of particulars--of place, time, manner, and persons, which is essential for moral reasoning. ... He knows himself that doing philosophy every day is the greatest good. ... Then the court orders him to abandon philosophy on pain of death. ... As was argued, since the god commands the practice of philosophy and the pursuit of justice, to obey the god is to obey one's own reasoned conclusion about the just. ... Thus Socrates in the Crito recognizes the validity of, exerc...

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Great minds like Socrates, Plato, Paley, Aristotle, Augustine, Anselm, Descartes have made arguments for the existence of God. We must realize that individuals like King James are in fact men, not Gods and the Bible is, in actuality, only a book and was also intended to be taken as a philosophy, a way of life; not literally! ...

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