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From its very beginning, philosophy set for itself the challenge of pursuing specific sorts of answers to a seemingly trivial question: Why? This question admits of a wide range of answers, it seems. Yet in its infancy, philosophy set about putting this question with a certain kind of precision. Religion, myth, and tragedy all ask this kind of question and all give answers of specific kinds to this question. Philosophy, at its inception, distinguished itself from these by defining what the question means and what would count as an answer.
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Plato, Phaedo, translated by David Gallop (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993). p. 96a9.
I borrow the idea of rational ground from Martin Heidegger’s reading of Leibniz. The idea appears in, Martin Heidegger, Metaphysische Anfangs-gründe der Logik in Ausgang von Leibniz, Gesamtausgabe, vol. 26 (Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, 1978) esp. pp. 135–284
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Lee, R.A. (2002). Introduction Theology, Science, and Rational Ground. In: Science, the Singular, and the Question of Theology. The New Middle Ages. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780312299125_1
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