Ethos vs. Logos — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Ethos and Logos
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Ethos
Ethos ( or US: ) is a Greek word meaning "character" that is used to describe the guiding beliefs or ideals that characterize a community, nation, or ideology. The Greeks also used this word to refer to the power of music to influence emotions, behaviors, and even morals.
Logos
Logos (UK: , US: ; Ancient Greek: λόγος, romanized: lógos; from λέγω, légō, lit. ''I say'') is a term in Western philosophy, psychology, rhetoric, and religion derived from a Greek word variously meaning "ground", "plea", "opinion", "expectation", "word", "speech", "account", "reason", "proportion", and "discourse". It became a technical term in Western philosophy beginning with Heraclitus (c. 535 – c. 475 BC), who used the term for a principle of order and knowledge.Ancient Greek philosophers used the term in different ways.
Ethos
The characteristic spirit of a culture, era, or community as manifested in its attitudes and aspirations
A challenge to the ethos of the 1960s
Logos
The Word of God, or principle of divine reason and creative order, identified in the Gospel of John with the second person of the Trinity incarnate in Jesus Christ.
Ethos
The disposition, character, or fundamental values peculiar to a specific person, people, culture, or movement
"They cultivated a subversive alternative ethos" (Anthony Burgess).
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Logos
(in Jungian psychology) the principle of reason and judgement, associated with the animus.
Ethos
The character or fundamental values of a person, people, culture, or movement.
Logos
In pre-Socratic philosophy, the principle governing the cosmos, the source of this principle, or human reasoning about the cosmos.
Ethos
(rhetoric) A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker invokes their authority, competence or expertise in an attempt to persuade others that their view is correct.
Logos
Among the Sophists, the topics of rational argument or the arguments themselves.
Ethos
(aesthetics) The traits in a work of art which express the ideal or typic character, as influenced by the ethos (character or fundamental values) of a people, rather than realistic or emotional situations or individual character in a narrow sense; opposed to pathos.
Logos
In Stoicism, the active, material, rational principle of the cosmos; nous. Identified with God, it is the source of all activity and generation and is the power of reason residing in the human soul.
Ethos
The character, sentiment, or disposition of a community or people, considered as a natural endowment; the spirit which actuates manners and customs; also, the characteristic tone or genius of an institution or social organization.
Logos
In biblical Judaism, the word of God, which itself has creative power and is God's medium of communication with the human race.
Ethos
The traits in a work of art which express the ideal or typic character - character as influenced by the ethos (sense 1) of a people - rather than realistic or emotional situations or individual character in a narrow sense; - opposed to pathos.
Logos
In Hellenistic Judaism, a hypostasis associated with divine wisdom.
Ethos
(anthropology) the distinctive spirit of a culture or an era;
The Greek ethos
Logos
(Christianity) In Saint John's Gospel, especially in the prologue (1:1-14), the creative word of God, which is itself God and incarnate in Jesus. Also called Word.
Logos
(rhetoric) A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker uses logic as the main argument.
Logos
Alternative case form of Logos
Logos
A word; reason; speech.
Logos
The divine Word; Christ.
Logos
The divine word of God; the second person in the Trinity (incarnate in Jesus)
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