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Originally Posted by crich70
I just think that once we know what a philosopher (like Aristotle or Plato) thinks about a given topic we should go on to ask 'why' they think that way about the topic. Otherwise we risk taking a given text at face value only.
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I understand what you're saying, but I'd suggest that an author who espouses a view
without making an argument in support of it is not actually writing philosophy at all. Argumentation is essentially what philosophy
is.