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