Logos

Logos, derives from Greek , "word, speech" and refers to the speech (or spoken text). By extension, logos also means "rationality" (intelligence), consistent with the ability to use language (, "language").

Logos is a term used especially in philosophy , in rhetoric , in Christian theology , and psychology.

Etymology Greek

Logos gave the suffixes -logue , -logy , logic- and -logistics , which refer to fields of knowledge (science), most of the time, the discipline has the suffix-ology, the person studying this discipline-logue, and adjective-logic. Example: archeology, theology, musicology, entomology, epidemiology and ethology.

Logos philosophy

In Platonic philosophy, the Logos is considered the reason the world as containing within itself the ideas eternal archetypes of all things. There is also a concept is both rational and oratory. Within the Arab-Muslim philosophy in the era of the Middle Ages , the concept of Logos means the philosophy directly inherited from those ancient Greeks, particularly neo-Platonism, while questioning the philosophical aspects of Ancient Greeks including Aristotelianism. According to Avicenna, Ibn Sina, Aristotle was not putting enough people at the center of the world, its problems and concerns of major metaphysical order.

A. Landry said that our word "reason" and even translated ^{Logos rhetoric}

In the art of rhetoric, logos is the demonstration of reason and argument. With the ethos and pathos, logos is one of the three pillars of rhetoric as developed by ancient authors (Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian ...)

Logos theology

In Catholic theology , logos is used to designate the second person of the Holy Trinity and has the same meaning as word : Christ. It refers to the Church and the Papacy relationship with God between man through a rational discourse, coherent and supported by a philosophical translation on that of Ancient Greeks.

The Cardinal Ratzinger , the future pope wrote in 2005:

Christianity must always remember that it is the religion of the Logos. It is faith in the Creator Spiritus, the Holy Spirit by which proceeds everything that exists. Today is what makes its philosophical strength in that either the world comes from the irrational, and reason is so that a "byproduct" during its development even painful, or the world comes from the rational and is then consequently its criterion and goal.

Faith Christian looks for this second thesis, thus having a philosophical point of view the upper hand, despite the fact that many now consider the first thesis is par excellence the only modern and rational option. However, a reason which takes its source in the irrational, and this is all things considered irrational in itself, is not the solution to our problems. Only creative reason, which is manifested in God crucified as love, can show us the way in reality.

We Christians must be extremely careful in much-needed dialogue between "people of the world" and Catholics to remain faithful to this fundamental line: to live a faith that comes from the Logos, creative reason, and because "this it is open to those who are rational in reality .

Logos of Theosophy

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Logos psychology

In psychology, Logos has given the term "verbal diarrhea" nf Chat inexhaustible flow of words more or less consistent. Logorrhea observed especially in manic states (see mania), where it reflects the "flight of ideas" of the patient. It is usual in states of arousal (acute intoxication, alcoholism, etc.).. (Source: Oxford Dictionary of Medicine)

See also

• Rise and fall of logos in Ancient Philosophy

Notes

• logocentrism

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