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[from 'Meditations' by René Descartes, in 2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 2. Logos ]

Full Idea

Descartes attacked and fundamentally altered classical logos. The result is an impoverished conception of reason, one that is unable to do justice to the significance and value of human experience.

Clarification

'Logos' is the broad Greek concept of human reasoning

Gist of Idea

Descartes impoverished the classical idea of logos, and it no longer covered human experience

Source

comment on René Descartes (Meditations [1641]) by David Roochnik - The Tragedy of Reason Prol. Xii

Book Reference

Roochnik,David: 'The Tragedy of Reason: the Platonic logos' [Routledge 1990], p.-5