12. Philosophy and Theosophy
GA 246/1908-08-17/p009
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[Especially in early scholasticism, logic and to some extent Aristotle's actual teachings were current]. And indeed, Aristotle's justification of the technique of reasoning was so significant that Kant said, and rightly so, that logic had not actually advanced a single sentence since Aristotle. And basically, this is still true today; even today, the basis of logical and logical-technical doctrines has remained pretty much unchanged compared to what Aristotle gave. What we want to add today arises from a rather amateurish approach to the concept of logic, even in philosophical circles.
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