Logos vs Ego - What's the difference?
logos | ego |
(rhetoric) A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker uses logic as the main argument.
(senseid)the self, especially with a sense of self-importance
* 1998 ,
(psychology, Freudian) the most central part of the mind, which mediates with one's surroundings
* 1954 , Calvin S. Hall, “A Primer of Freudian Psychology”
As nouns the difference between logos and ego
is that logos is a form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker uses logic as the main argument while ego is (the self)the self, especially with a sense of self-importance.As a proper noun Logos
is in Ancient Greek philosophy, the rational principle that governs the cosmos.logos
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(wikipedia logos)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
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* (form of rhetoric) ethos, pathosEtymology 2
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(en noun) (wikipedia ego)- When every thought absorbs your attention completely, when you are so identified with the voice in your head and the emotions that accompany it that you lose yourself in every thought and every emotion, then you are totally identified with form and therefore in the grip of ego'. ' Ego is a conglomeration of recurring thought forms and conditioned mental-emotional patterns that are invested with a sense of I, a sense of self.
- In the well adjusted person the ego is the executive of the personality and is governed by the reality principle.