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Single Idea 1570

[from 'Politics' by Aristotle, in 2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 2. Logos ]

Full Idea

Human beings, alone of the animals, have logos.

Clarification

'Logos' is the broad Greek concept of human reasoning

Gist of Idea

Human beings, alone of the animals, have logos

Source

Aristotle (Politics [c.332 BCE], 1253a09)

Book Reference

Roochnik,David: 'The Tragedy of Reason: the Platonic logos' [Routledge 1990], p.12


A Reaction

This may be a grand claim that we are the only animals that can think rationally, or a more obvious observation that we are the only ones that talk. Aristotle was well aware that logos is a very resonant word.

Related Ideas

Idea 1571 'Logos' ranges from thought/reasoning, to words, to rational structures outside thought [Roochnik]

Idea 424 Reason tells us that all things are one [Heraclitus]

Idea 15660 Logos is the source of everything, and my theories separate and explain each nature [Heraclitus]