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Chapter I. Logos Identified

Raoul Mortley, Bond University

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This is an electronic version of chapter I, Logos Identifed from the book:

Mortley, Raoul (1986) From Word to Silence, I. The rise and fall of logos. (Theophaneia Bd 30) Bonn: Hanstein, 1986.

Abstract

Chapter Contents: From myth to logos 11; the meaning of logos/reason 12; logos as new-style myth 13; logos as autonomous, separate from individual exponents 18; Flats's attempts to define logos 20; the Sophists' caricature 21; Aristotle on logos as the human capacity, and logos as in nature 25; the stoic seminal logos 30; the Sceptics and their analysis of the invenrion of their predecessors; the failure of logos 33.

Suggested Citation

Raoul Mortley. "Chapter I. Logos Identified" From Word to Silence, 1. The Rise and Fall of Logos (1986).
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/raoul_mortley/17



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