The answer is d. Both A & B
The Greek word λόγος or logos is a word with various meanings. It is often translated into English as "Word" but can also mean thought, speech, meaning, reason, proportion, principle, standard, or logic, among other things.
In ancient philosophy, Logos was used by Heraclitus, one of the most eminent Pre-Socratic Greek philosophers, to describe the inherent order in the universe and the knowledge men had of each other in Greek society. The Stoics understood Logos as the animating power of the universe, (as it is also presently understood today in Theosophical terms and by the Rosicrucians in their conception of the cosmos) which further influenced how this word was understood later on (in 20th century psychology, for instance).
2006-11-16 06:39:06
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answer #1
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answered by the_lipsiot 7
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Throughout the new testament there are about thirty different uses of the Greek word "logos" that all mean distinctly different things. So I would have to say the answer is "D". Since the embodiment of an idea in a single word (one meaning of logos) could essentialy be a COSMIC embodiment, I have to be open to that particular usage of the word. Whether or not the cosmic order would ever bring about change is irrelevant.
2006-11-16 14:40:22
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answered by Anonymous
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A. Logos is the use of words and logic in order to organize, make sense of something or persuade. It is part of the triangle of persuasion (Logos, Ethos, Pathos) IE Logical , Logistics. As a concrete thing Logic does not exist, it is an idea but as a concept logic DOES exist. Logic determines order, not change but can be used persuasively to affect change.
2006-11-16 14:36:11
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answered by fancyname 6
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None of them. It comes from the Greek word "logos" which means "the study of". That´s why, for example, Psycology is the study of the soul : "psique" in Greek and "logos": study
2006-11-16 14:44:38
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answered by Anonymous
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In ancient philosophy, Logos was used by Heraclitus, one of the most eminent Pre-Socratic Greek philosophers, to describe the inherent order in the universe and the knowledge men had of each other in Greek society. Logos in Greek means the underlying order of reality of which ordinary people are only unconsciously aware. It is the "Way things are", the totality of the "laws of nature" in the European sense, and, as such, it is always universal (xunos, the common): universal across cultures, though understood differently in each culture via the parochialism of people's expression of, and behavior according to, it -- only if peoples can recognize this.:
One must follow what is common; but, even though the Logos is common, most people live as though they possessed their own understanding of it. (Fr.2) The common is what is open to all, what can be seen and heard by all. To see is to let in with open eyes what is open to view, i.e. what is lit up and revealed to all. The dead (the completely private ones) neither see nor hear; they are closed. No light (fire) shines in them; no speech sounds in them. And yet, even they participate in the cosmos. The extinguished ones also belong to the continuum of lighting and extinguishing that is the common cosmos. The dead touch upon the living sleeping, who in turn touch upon the living waking. (Fr. 26)
Heraclitus also used Logos to mean the undifferentiated material substrate from which all things came: "Listening not to me but to the Logos it is wise to agree that all [things] are one." In this sense Logos is Heraclitus' answer to the Pre-Socratic question of what the arche is of all things. Logos therefore designates both the material substrate itself and the universal, mechanical, "just" Way in which this substrate manifests itself in and as individual things; that is, it subsumes within itself the later Platonic distinction (in Timaeus) between "form" and "matter".
By the time of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, logos was the term used to describe the faculty of human reason and the knowledge men had of the world and of each other. Plato allowed his characters to engage in the conceit of describing logos as a living being in some of his dialogues. The development of the Academy with hypomnemata brought logos closer to the literal text. Aristotle, who studied under Plato and who was much more of a practical thinker, first developed the concept of logic as a depiction of the rules of human rationality.
The Stoics understood Logos as the animating power of the universe, (as it is also presently understood today in Theosophical terms and by the Rosicrucians in their conception of the cosmos) which further influenced how this word was understood later on (in 20th century psychology, for instance).
Logos is also derived from the greek word "caverna."
2006-11-16 14:34:48
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answered by Brite Tiger 6
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d
2006-11-16 14:57:18
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answered by sofista 6
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Jesus
Don't you all understand multiple choice?
Pick one and move on, goddamn.
2006-11-16 14:43:31
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answered by -.- 4
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