PHI 2380 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Systematic Chaos
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Logos what is spoken: a definition, a proof, reason (self-thought), etc. (what is said and what you listen to, all things come to be in accordance with logos (everything"s nature is as it is due to logos) It"s the fundamental principle that governs everything; logos is always there; heraclitus" first principle that which explains everything else. It"s part of your everyday experience, whether or not your choose to acknowledge it (just wake up: explains why his fragments are short and to the point he"s trying to wake people up. Ex: a bow- the fact that it is at variance with itself it what allows it to be a bow (to agree with itself - to be what it is) 2015-01-23: opposition (variance) makes something what it is. [10. 83] it is necessary to note that war is common (the logos) and justice is strife: opposition composites unity.