414 | Logos is common to all, but most people live as if they have a private understanding [Heraclitus] |
24047 | An account is either a definition or a demonstration [Aristotle] |
1570 | Human beings, alone of the animals, have logos [Aristotle] |
1575 | For Aristotle logos is essentially the ability to talk rationally about questions of value [Roochnik on Aristotle] |
20775 | Stoics study canons, criteria and definitions, in order to find the truth [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius] |
21393 | Stoics believed that rational capacity in man (logos) is embodied in the universe [Stoic school, by Long] |
21810 | The Stoics distinguished spoken logos from logos within the mind [Stoic school, by Plotinus] |
6294 | In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the word was God [John] |
1569 | Descartes impoverished the classical idea of logos, and it no longer covered human experience [Roochnik on Descartes] |
15574 | 'Logos' really means 'making something manifest' [Heidegger, by Polt] |
9197 | The logos represents a demand for universal rationality [Hadot] |
7420 | When logos controls our desires, we have actually become the logos [Foucault] |
17950 | The logos enables us to track one particular among a network of objects [Nehamas] |
17951 | A logos may be short, but it contains reference to the whole domain of the object [Nehamas] |
1571 | 'Logos' ranges from thought/reasoning, to words, to rational structures outside thought [Roochnik] |
1572 | In the seventeenth century the only acceptable form of logos was technical knowledge [Roochnik] |
1573 | The hallmark of a person with logos is that they give reasons why one opinion is superior to another [Roochnik] |
1592 | Logos cannot refute the relativist, and so must admit that it too is a matter of desire (for truth and agreement) [Roochnik] |
1593 | Human desire has an ordered structure, with logos at the pinnacle [Roochnik] |
1603 | Logos is not unconditionally good, but good if there is another person willing to engage with it [Roochnik] |