Overview
- Explores the three theories of the logos: analytic logic, dialectical logic, and oceanic logic
- Presents an argument of great intellectual scope
- Features cogent and lucid prose
Part of the book series: Historical-Analytical Studies on Nature, Mind and Action (HSNA, volume 4)
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This book offers insight into the nature of meaningful discourse. It presents an argument of great intellectual scope written by an author with more than four decades of experience. Readers will gain a deeper understanding into three theories of the logos: analytic, dialectical, and oceanic. The author first introduces and contrasts these three theories. He then assesses them with respect to their basic parameters: necessity, truth, negation, infinity, as well as their use in mathematics.
Analytic Aristotelian logic has traditionally claimed uniqueness, most recently in its Fregean and post-Fregean variants. Dialectical logic was first proposed by Hegel. The account presented here cuts through the dense, often incomprehensible Hegelian text. Oceanic logic was never identified as such, but the author gives numerous examples of its use from the history of philosophy.
The final chapter addresses the plurality of the three theories and of how we should deal with it. The author first worked in analytic logic in the 1970s and 1980s, first researched dialectical logic in the 1990s, and discovered oceanic logic in the 2000s. This book represents the culmination of reflections that have lasted an entire scholarly career.
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Book Title: Theories of the Logos
Authors: Ermanno Bencivenga
Series Title: Historical-Analytical Studies on Nature, Mind and Action
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63396-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-63395-4Published: 29 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87543-9Published: 12 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-63396-1Published: 10 August 2017
Series ISSN: 2509-4793
Series E-ISSN: 2509-4807
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 164
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Logic, Mathematical Logic and Foundations, German Idealism, History of Philosophy