ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with Aristotle’s declaration that human beings are by nature the animals with logos. Having logos is the precondition of being political. For Aristotle, then, logos is a capacity to see and then bring to voice what really exists in nature; to make clear the truth of an entity. Logos is definitive of who we are: rational beings, living together in a common world to which we have good access (if only we see and talk straight). Even further, logos is unconditionally good. If logos is not unconditionally good, it is either unconditionally bad or conditionally good. It argues that the consequence of stating that logos is only conditionally good is relativism and that the relativist would make value judgments groundless, reason-less. Protagoras offers a profound alternative to the classical conception of logos. Logos began by asserting its unconditional goodness.
