hO LOGOS

Jeffrey B. Gibson jgibson000 at ameritech.net
Thu Oct 29 12:21:54 EST 1998


dd-1 at juno.com wrote:
> 
> Edgar,  Denny Diehl here
> 
> >>I believe the first philosophical use of the term LOGOS was in the
> >mid sixth-century BC by Heraclitus who lived in Ephesus.  He saw the
> >world as an ever-changing phenomenon, yet as much as it was
> >continually changing, the more it remained the same.  What kept the
> >world orderly and from complete chaos, he described as the
> >LOGOS (reason) of God.<
> >
> >With all respect, Denny, I don't know if I would say that Heraclitus
> >described hO LOGOS as "the LOGOS (reason) of God." Looking at the
> >Heraclitean fragments makes me inclined to seriously doubt such an
> >interpretation of the Ephesian philosopher.
> 
> That could very well be.  It has been years since I studied the
> pre-Socratic,
> and I looked for my paper on him and can't find it.  However, I remember
> an illustration concerning a river which was constantly changing, which
> change should bring chaos, however the cosmos is anything but chaotic.
> I remember the philosopher ascribing that to LOGOS.  If you have his
> fragmentary writings in electronic form, would it be possible for you to
> post it, or portions of it for our consideration?
> 
All of the fragments of Heraclitus (from the Burnet translation) can be
found at the following URL

http://plato.evansville.edu/public/burnet/ch3a.htm

There is also available there an essay on H. and the Logos.

Yours,

Jeffrey Gibson


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