Book Description
This work attempts to track major changes in the treatment of logos as it was envisioned first by Heraclitus – a possibility of human Reason to meet the world at large – in the work of eight major canonical figures in Western philosophy. The treatment starts with the earliest etymologies of logos, how it was transformed through its adoption by Heraclitus and Plato, and follows it forward as it is reinterpreted by medieval scholastics as recta ratio – right reasoning. The book finishes with Nietzsche’s damning critique of the historicity of reason as a locale both individual and universal.