School III · Lesson 09 of 15
Logos: Reason Woven Into the World
Core idea: Greek thinkers proposed that the world runs on a reason, or Logos, and that human reason is a piece of it.
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The Greek word Logos can mean "word," "speech," "reason" or "account." It lives on in English: logic, and every "-ology," like biology or psychology, which literally means "an account of" something.
Around 500 BCE, a thinker named Heraclitus, from the Greek city of Ephesus, used the word in a new way. He said the world is constantly changing, yet that change follows a hidden order, a Logos. Two of his ideas are still quoted:
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