The logos split?

Question

Imagine a research topic and problem statement involving "the split of Logos into logic and myth" that focuses on the Socrates to Aristotle changes and all the Classical philosophical speculations.

How would you approach this?

Answer 1

Begin with the fact that Socrates and Plato believed "essences," the basis for any system of Logos, was in the heavens and mystically could not be identified except by their appearance in their earthly forms, and those forms were identified with gods and goddesses.

Aristotle said essences were "in the things themselves," as if someday science could extract them.

These views are 180degrees apart, and are fundamentally different, both metaphysically and epistemologically.

You might also note that the Stoics, who relied a great deal on Aristotle's logic, disagreed with him on this subject. They said essences were conceptual, intellectual, in the mind. Later philosophers and theologians like Wm. of Occam, Ayn Rand, and perhaps ibn Rushd and others confirmed this. Occam actually had to flee from the Church for his life, to the protection of the French crown, for disagreeing with Aquinas on this issue.