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borg
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Posted 10/26/2003 9:09 AM (GMT -6)

Hey a question for any die-hard Philosophers out there. I'm writing a paper on the logos as foudn in Heraclitus, Plato, and Aristotle and I'm having a tough time figuring out where Aristotle stands on the definition of logos. If anyone could give me their advice or any help I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.
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"So it is a more glorious work of power to uphold a soul in a state of grace and holiness, and to carry it on till it is brought to glory, when there is so much sin remaining in the heart resisting, and Satan with all his might opposing, than it would have been to have kept manfrom falling at first, when Satan had nothing in man." Edwards

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Posted 10/26/2003 1:23 PM (GMT -6)

http://bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Def.show/RTD/ISBE/Topic/Logos

From the above link:

The doctrine of the Logos cannot be said to occupy a distinctive place in the teaching of Aristotle, though the word does occur in a variety of senses (e.g. orthos logos, "right insight," the faculty by which the will is trained to proper action). Aristotle sought to solve the fundamental problem of Greek philosophy as to how behind the changing multiplicity of appearances an abiding Being is to be thought by means of the concept of development. Plato had regarded the "ideas" as the causes of phenomena--causes different from the objects themselves. Aristotle endeavored to overcome the duality of Plato by representing reality as the essence which contains within itself potentially the phenomena, and unfolds into the particular manifestations of the sensible world. This conception has exerted a powerful influence upon subsequent thought, and particularly upon the monotheistic view of the world. At the same time in working it out, the ultimate "prime-mover" of Aristotle was not materially different from the idea of "the Good" of Plato. And inasmuch as God was conceived as pure thought existing apart from the world in eternal blessedness, Aristotle did not succeed in resolving the duality of God and the universe which exercised the Greek mind.

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