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Logos (Reason / Cosmic Principle)

The rational principle that orders the cosmos — reason, word, and law woven into reality itself.

Logos means word, account, reason, or ratio, and in philosophy it names the rational principle that orders the universe. Heraclitus of Ephesus (c. 500 BCE) first gave it cosmic weight, calling the Logos the law by which all things happen; the Stoics (from 3rd c. BCE) developed it into a divine rational fire pervading nature. It later entered Hellenistic Jewish thought through Philo of Alexandria and Christian theology through the Gospel of John.

How it traveled

  1. Cratylus
    Athens · -375
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  2. Sophist
    Athens · -360
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  3. Laws
    Athens · -348
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  4. Magna Moralia
    Chalcis · -322
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  5. Metaphysics
    Chalcis · -322
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  6. De interpretatione
    Chalcis · -322
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  7. de Natura Deorum
    Formiae · -43
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  8. Allegoriae (= Quaestiones Homericae)
    · 75
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  9. Institutio Oratoria
    Rome · 95
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  10. Discourses
    Nicopolis · 108
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  11. De Iside et Osiride
    Chaeronea · 120
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  12. De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos
    Chaeronea · 120
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  13. Ad Se Ipsum
    Vindobona (Vienna) · 170
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  14. Adversus Mathematicos
    Alexandria · 190
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  15. Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes
    Alexandria · 210
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  16. Vitae philosophorum
    · 240
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  17. Enneades
    Rome · 270
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  18. Chagigah
    Sura (Babylonia) · 500
  19. De consolatione philosophiae
    Rome · 523
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  20. Bereshit Rabbah
    Tiberias · 600
  21. Shemot Rabbah
    Tiberias · 600
  22. Vayikra Rabbah
    Tiberias · 600
  23. Rasag on Sefer Yetzirah
    Sura (Babylonia) · 931
  24. HaEmunot veHaDeot
    Sura (Babylonia) · 933
  25. Midrash Tehillim
    Eretz Yisrael (travels) · 1050
  26. Duties of the Heart
    Zaragoza (Saragossa) · 1080
  27. Guide for the Perplexed
    Cairo · 1190
  28. Yalkut Shimoni on Nach
    Tiberias · 1250
  29. Sha'arei Orah
    Guadalajara · 1260
  30. Sha'arei Tzedek
    Castile · 1265

Key passages(20)

Fragmenta In Evangelium Joannis (In Catenis) · Origen

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De interpretatione · Aristotle

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Oratio I contra Arianos · Athanasius of Alexandria

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Oratio I contra Arianos · Athanasius of Alexandria

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Oratio II contra Arianos · Athanasius of Alexandria

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Oratio II contra Arianos · Athanasius of Alexandria

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Oratio II contra Arianos · Athanasius of Alexandria

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Oratio II contra Arianos · Athanasius of Alexandria

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Oratio II contra Arianos · Athanasius of Alexandria

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Oratio II contra Arianos · Athanasius of Alexandria

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Oratio II contra Arianos · Athanasius of Alexandria

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Oratio II contra Arianos · Athanasius of Alexandria

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Oratio quarta contra Arianos [Sp.] · Athanasius of Alexandria

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Oratio quarta contra Arianos [Sp.] · Athanasius of Alexandria

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Oratio quarta contra Arianos [Sp.] · Athanasius of Alexandria

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Catena In Epistulam Ad Hebraeos (E Cod. Paris. Coislin. 204) · Catenae (Novum Testamentum)

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Catena In Joannem (Catena Integra) (e codd. Paris. Coislin. 23 + Oxon. Bodl. Auct. T.1.4) · Catenae (Novum Testamentum)

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Fragmenta Logica et Physica · Chrysippus

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Excerpta ex Theodoto · Clement of Alexandria

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Paedagogus · Clement of Alexandria

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