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oapen-20.500.12657-313832021-11-04T14:07:37Z The Middle Included Aygün, Ömer Philosophy Aristotle Socrates Soul The Middle Included is a systematic exploration of the meanings of logos throughout Aristotle’s work. It claims that the basic meaning is “gathering,” a relation that holds its terms together without isolating them or collapsing one to the other. This meaning also applies to logos in the sense of human language. Aristotle describes how some animals are capable of understanding non-firsthand experience without being able to relay it, while others relay it without understanding. Aygün argues that what distinguishes human language, for Aristotle, is its ability to both understand and relay firsthand and non-firsthand experiences. This ability is key to understanding the human condition: science, history, news media, propaganda, gossip, utopian fiction, and sophistry, as well as philosophy. Ömer Aygün finds Aristotle’s name for this peculiar but crucial human ability of “gathering” both experiences is logos, and this leads to a claim about the specificity of human rationality and language. 2017-04-01 23:55:55 2020-03-12 03:00:30 2020-04-01T13:33:22Z 2020-04-01T13:33:22Z 2016-12-15 book 628782 OCN: 968905319 9780810134027 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31383 eng Rereading Ancient Philosophy application/pdf n/a 628782.pdf Northwestern University Press 10.26530/oapen_628782 100717 10.26530/oapen_628782 b4699693-8bd9-4982-b22e-c153becb6f4b b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780810134027 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Evanston, Illinois 100717 KU Select 2016 Front List Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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The Middle Included is a systematic exploration of the meanings of logos throughout Aristotle’s work. It claims that the basic meaning is “gathering,” a relation that holds its terms together without isolating them or collapsing one to the other. This meaning also applies to logos in the sense of human language. Aristotle describes how some animals are capable of understanding non-firsthand experience without being able to relay it, while others relay it without understanding. Aygün argues that what distinguishes human language, for Aristotle, is its ability to both understand and relay firsthand and non-firsthand experiences. This ability is key to understanding the human condition: science, history, news media, propaganda, gossip, utopian fiction, and sophistry, as well as philosophy. Ömer Aygün finds Aristotle’s name for this peculiar but crucial human ability of “gathering” both experiences is logos, and this leads to a claim about the specificity of human rationality and language.
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