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It's the same pathos vs logos argument that has been well documented over the last 3000+ years. Emotion and logic have always been at odds.
by wayoutthere 7y ago
It's the same pathos vs logos argument that has been well documented over the last 3000+ years. Emotion and logic have always been at odds.
- DanielBMarkham 7y agoRelated trivia: logos initially meant story or account, as opposed to how it later evolved. So we're back to history again.
- dr_dshiv 7y agoWoah, logos meant so much more than that! Check Wikipedia.
- DanielBMarkham 7y agoOf course! In Classic Greek there's a rich and nuanced meaning that we're still mining today! In ancient Greek, however, say 1000-650BCE or so, it's much more murky, with "story" or "account" being the best we have right now. From Wiki, "...What logos means here is not certain; it may mean "reason" or "explanation" in the sense of an objective cosmic law, or it may signify nothing more than "saying" or "wisdom". Yet, an independent existence of a universal logos was clearly suggested by Heraclitus..." There's a whole other story about how beginning with the Sophists and then Plato and Aristotle the word started taking on the depth it ended up with. This journey in meaning was not the topic of my comment.