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Quotes from Authority and persuasion in philosophy — Mark D. Jordan

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Aristippus is credited with having said that those who stop short of philosophy in the preparatory studies are like Penelope's suitors: they marry the maids, but not the mistress.

Authority and persuasion in philosophy (1985)

The claim of philosophy to be about the whole can be secured only if the many "ordinary" languages in the whole can be taken over by an act of persuasion into a language about the whole.

Authority and persuasion in philosophy (1985)

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