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From Ancient Greek Logos to European Rationality
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Խ․ Աբովյանի անվան հայկական պետական մանկավարժական համալսարան
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Logos ; reason ; rationality ; myth ; human identity ; idea of Europe
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Because of history, culture, and politics, European identity has its archetypical elements in ancient Greek culture. Ancient Greek philosophy broughtLogos to fore and defined it as the crucial problem and the postulate of the human. We translate the Greek term Logosin English as reason or rationality. These terms, however, do not cover the semantic field of Logossince this includes, among other things, order of being, ground, language, argument etc. The juxtaposition of Logos (reason) to myth makes up the matrix of rationalism. Ancient Greek culture, however, was a culture of Logos (reason) as well as of myth and had enough room for forms, gods, and heroes, for science, poetry, and religious festivities. While ancient Greek culture seems to follow the logic of forms, modern European culture follows the logic of things.
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Երևան