Logos vs. Pathos

Logosnoun

(rhetoric) A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker uses logic as the main argument.

Pathosnoun

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.

Logosnoun

alternative case form of Logos

Pathosnoun

(rhetoric) A writer or speaker's attempt to persuade an audience through appeals involving the use of strong emotions such as pity.

Logosnoun

A word; reason; speech.

Pathosnoun

(literature) An author's attempt to evoke a feeling of pity or sympathetic sorrow for a character.

Logosnoun

The divine Word; Christ.

Pathosnoun

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.

Logosnoun

the divine word of God; the second person in the Trinity (incarnate in Jesus)

Pathosnoun

Suffering; the enduring of active stress or affliction.

Logosnoun

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.

Pathosnoun

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.’;

Logosnoun

(in Jungian psychology) the principle of reason and judgement, associated with the animus.

Pathosnoun

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

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 , , , , , , , , , and . 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.

‘ground’; ‘plea’; ‘opinion’; ‘expectation’; ‘word’; ‘speech’; ‘account’; ‘reason’; ‘proportion’; ‘discourse’;

Pathosnoun

Suffering; the enduring of active stress or affliction.

Pathosnoun

a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow);

‘the film captured all the pathos of their situation’;

Pathosnoun

a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others;

‘the blind are too often objects of pity’;

Pathosnoun

a style that has the power to evoke feelings

Pathosnoun

a quality that evokes pity or sadness

‘the actor injects his customary humour and pathos into the role’;

Pathos

Pathos (, US: ; plural: pathea or pathê; Greek: πάθος, for or or or . In medicine it refers to a , or "complaint.

‘suffering’; ‘experience’; ‘something that one undergoes,’; ‘something that happens to one’; ‘failing,’; ‘illness’;