Classical philosophy founded reason on harmony with a totality

Evidence

Great philosophical systems, such as those of Plato and Aristotle, scholasticism, and German idealism were founded on an objective theory of reason. It aimed at evolving a comprehensive system, or hierarchy, of all beings, including man and his aims. The degree of reasonableness of a man’s life could be determined according to its harmony with this totality. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1457

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Plato through German idealism grounded reason in an objective hierarchy of beings. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1457; Beethoven’s sonata form reenacts tonality as a self-evident, self-confirming law; Kant located moral worth in reason’s autonomy from habit and inclination (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Kant located moral worth in reason’s autonomy from habit and inclination #contradicts (0.80)
• Reason was originally conceived as a subversive power that transforms reality toward truth #corroborates (0.75) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 487
• Kantian ethics made morality rational and shorn of embodied form, displacing Aristotelian ethics #qualifies (0.75) — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 191