Logos vs. Pathos — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Logos and Pathos
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Definitions
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.
Pathos➦
Pathos (, US: ; plural: pathea or pathê; Greek: πάθος, for "suffering" or "experience" or "something that one undergoes," or "something that happens to one". In medicine it refers to a "failing," "illness", or "complaint.
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.
Pathos➦
A quality that evokes pity or sadness
The actor injects his customary humour and pathos into the role
Logos➦
(in Jungian psychology) the principle of reason and judgement, associated with the animus.
Pathos➦
A quality, as of an experience or a work of art, that arouses feelings of pity, sympathy, tenderness, or sorrow.
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Logos➦
In pre-Socratic philosophy, the principle governing the cosmos, the source of this principle, or human reasoning about the cosmos.
Pathos➦
The feeling, as of sympathy or pity, so aroused.
Logos➦
Among the Sophists, the topics of rational argument or the arguments themselves.
Pathos➦
The quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, especially that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality.
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.
Pathos➦
(rhetoric) A writer or speaker's attempt to persuade an audience through appeals involving the use of strong emotions such as pity.
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Logos➦
In biblical Judaism, the word of God, which itself has creative power and is God's medium of communication with the human race.
Pathos➦
(literature) An author's attempt to evoke a feeling of pity or sympathetic sorrow for a character.
Logos➦
In Hellenistic Judaism, a hypostasis associated with divine wisdom.
Pathos➦
In theology and existentialist ethics following Kierkegaard and Heidegger, a deep and abiding commitment of the heart, as in the notion of "finding your passion" as an important aspect of a fully lived, engaged life.
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.
Pathos➦
Suffering; the enduring of active stress or affliction.
Logos➦
(rhetoric) A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker uses logic as the main argument.
Pathos➦
That quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, esp., that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality; as, the pathos of a picture, of a poem, or of a cry.
The combination of incident, and the pathos of catastrophe.
Logos➦
Alternative case form of Logos
Pathos➦
The quality or character of those emotions, traits, or experiences which are personal, and therefore restricted and evanescent; transitory and idiosyncratic dispositions or feelings as distinguished from those which are universal and deep-seated in character; - opposed to ethos.
Logos➦
A word; reason; speech.
Pathos➦
Suffering; the enduring of active stress or affliction.
Logos➦
The divine Word; Christ.
Pathos➦
A quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow);
The film captured all the pathos of their situation
Logos➦
The divine word of God; the second person in the Trinity (incarnate in Jesus)
Pathos➦
A feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others;
The blind are too often objects of pity
Pathos➦
A style that has the power to evoke feelings