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logos

logos

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A basic idea of reason or order that explains the world
  • noun
  • /ˈloʊɡɑs/
  • Formal
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  • The Greek Stoics later developed the concept of the Logos further.

So on the one hand, the logos is what is said.

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Examples

  • Greek philosopher Heraclitus was the first to advance a theory about the Logos.

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  • So on the one hand, the logos is what is said.

  • To him, the Logos was the universal principle that animated and governed the world.

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  • Greek philosophers (and the Stoics in particular) had their own concept of Logos.

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  • The Logos—Mind or Thought—could be found in nature and in language, especially, for Bushnell, biblical language.

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  • The ancient Greeks believed that understanding the logos was essential to achieving wisdom.

  • For the Stoics, living in harmony with the logos meant aligning one's actions with reason and nature.

  • Heraclitus proposed that the logos is the underlying order that governs the universe.

Surface Forms

logos singular
logoi plural

Etymology

Logos comes from the Greek word logos, which meant 'word' or 'reason', and it is the same root as logic. So logos is the idea of a guiding 'word' or 'reason' that gives order and knowledge.