Single Idea 1575

[catalogued under 2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 2. Logos]

Full Idea

For Aristotle logos is the ability to speak rationally about, with the hope of attaining knowledge, questions of value.

Clarification

'Logos' is the broad Greek concept of human reasoning

Gist of Idea

For Aristotle logos is essentially the ability to talk rationally about questions of value

Source

comment on Aristotle (works [c.330 BCE]) by David Roochnik - The Tragedy of Reason p.26

Book Reference

Roochnik,David: 'The Tragedy of Reason: the Platonic logos' [Routledge 1990], p.26