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Prove youre not a pseud and explain the word 'logos' and its use in philosophy using less than 20 words.

>> No.18261240

organizational principle

>> No.18261253

>>18261240
/thread

>> No.18261262

>>18261232
Something akin to Order in the abstract

>> No.18262577

>>18261232
The rational order of things

>> No.18262606

>>18261232
Applying the language of math to a system based upon faith with potentially hilarious but mostly boring results.

>> No.18262628

divine reason and order

>> No.18262641

>>18261232
You are the real pseud. Post socratic thought poses everything in Apollan terms and is nothing but a mere image, a dream.

>> No.18262647

>>18261232
logos is the ancient greek legos

>> No.18262665

Philosophy is a pseud magnet

>> No.18262713
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>>18261232
>>18261232

Fuck your 20 words. Attic Greek had a very loose word order, so words would take on different meaning based on their context (moreso than english).

Logos meant that someone was speaking, but would also be used to refer to a conversation/dialogue. Logos was elevated to the status of many different technical terms, many times. Its use in philosophy is dependent on the authour using it.

>> No.18262781

>>18262641
>Post socratic thought poses everything in Apollan terms and is nothing but a mere image, a dream
anon you have to actually read the Birth of Tragedy before you post about it or you come off really fucking dumb

>> No.18262784

>>18261240
nah that's more like arche

>> No.18263085

>>18261232
plural of "logo", which is a symbol or image used to represent an organization or its products, generally in marketing

>> No.18263231

There are two possible explanations, so bare with me

Initially, in ancient Greece, logos was considered a factual report, as opposed to mythos, which was considered the story of the poet. These two were always considered separate, and this separation is a big part of Greek polytheism.

However, under the influence of the Persian empire, and its religion of Zoroastrianism, logos began to become more the thing we associate it with today, namely order and consistency. This was, amongst others, under the influence of Heraclitus, who took the main principle that the Zoroastrian god Ahura Mazda stood for, namely order, or ‘asha‘ in Persian, and introduced it into Greek thinking and philosophy. This was taken up by the stoics, who turned it into the core of their way of thinking, with the extinguishing of the emotions, or apatheia, as the main means to achieve a life in line with this natural order