Catherine Rowett: Need

Catherine Rowett is Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia (born 1956). Explore interesting quotes on need.
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“For Heraclitus, the logos is something that we need to learn to notice if we are to understand the true significance of the world. It manifests itself all around us but, Heraclitus suggests, only a few intelligent people ever realize what is going on.”

Catherine Rowett

Source: Presocratic Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (2004), Ch. 5 : Heraclitus

Intelligence , People , Learning , World

“If we are to understand what is going on in Empedocles’s writings, we need to think about the philosophical motives that drive him, and we need to make use of the bits of text we already had before the papyrus turned up.”

Catherine Rowett

Source: Presocratic Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (2004), Ch. 1 : Lost words, forgotten worlds

Motivation , Understanding , Thinking

“Often, when thinking about Socrates (or about Plato’s depiction of Socrates), we need to remember that he is reacting to the Presocratics, but the reverse is never true.”

Catherine Rowett

Source: Presocratic Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (2004), Introduction

Thinking