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Full Idea
Is the arché (basis) intelligible, or is it chaos? Upon this question hinges all, for answering it determines whether poetry or logos is the form of human speech that best does justice to the world.
Gist of Idea
We prefer reason or poetry according to whether basics are intelligible or not
Source
David Roochnik (The Tragedy of Reason [1990], p.139)
Book Ref
Roochnik,David: 'The Tragedy of Reason: the Platonic logos' [Routledge 1990], p.139