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Single Idea 24047
[filed under theme 2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 2. Logos
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Full Idea
Every account is either a definition or a demonstration.
Gist of Idea
An account is either a definition or a demonstration
Source
Aristotle (De Anima [c.329 BCE], 407a24)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'De Anima (on the psuche)', ed/tr. Reeve, C.D.C. [Hackett 2017], p.11
A Reaction
That is, it is either a summary of the thing's essential nature, or it is a proof of some natural fact, starting from first principles.
Related Idea
Idea 24048
Demonstrations move from starting-points to deduced conclusions [Aristotle]
The
20 ideas
with the same theme
[broad Greek concept of understanding or giving reasons]:
414
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Logos is common to all, but most people live as if they have a private understanding
[Heraclitus]
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24047
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An account is either a definition or a demonstration
[Aristotle]
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1570
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Human beings, alone of the animals, have logos
[Aristotle]
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1575
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For Aristotle logos is essentially the ability to talk rationally about questions of value
[Roochnik on Aristotle]
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21810
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The Stoics distinguished spoken logos from logos within the mind
[Stoic school, by Plotinus]
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20775
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Stoics study canons, criteria and definitions, in order to find the truth
[Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
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21393
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Stoics believed that rational capacity in man (logos) is embodied in the universe
[Stoic school, by Long]
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6294
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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the word was God
[John]
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1569
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Descartes impoverished the classical idea of logos, and it no longer covered human experience
[Roochnik on Descartes]
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15574
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'Logos' really means 'making something manifest'
[Heidegger, by Polt]
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9197
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The logos represents a demand for universal rationality
[Hadot]
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7420
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When logos controls our desires, we have actually become the logos
[Foucault]
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17950
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The logos enables us to track one particular among a network of objects
[Nehamas]
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17951
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A logos may be short, but it contains reference to the whole domain of the object
[Nehamas]
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1571
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'Logos' ranges from thought/reasoning, to words, to rational structures outside thought
[Roochnik]
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1572
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In the seventeenth century the only acceptable form of logos was technical knowledge
[Roochnik]
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1573
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The hallmark of a person with logos is that they give reasons why one opinion is superior to another
[Roochnik]
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1592
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Logos cannot refute the relativist, and so must admit that it too is a matter of desire (for truth and agreement)
[Roochnik]
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1593
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Human desire has an ordered structure, with logos at the pinnacle
[Roochnik]
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1603
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Logos is not unconditionally good, but good if there is another person willing to engage with it
[Roochnik]
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