我们注意到在西方，很多人相信单一世界秩序而不相信多元世界秩序。西文宇宙来自希腊字kosmos，原意为‘有秩序地排列’。Pythagoras首先把这个字用来指称宇宙，后来这个字被伸延泛指整个物质世界，包括世界。
在单一世界秩序之前，那里是一片混乱。
单一世界秩序的概念，导致西方理性主义的发展。为了要知道混乱到秩序的过程，必须找出秩序的来由。Heraclitus就首先提出了，从混乱到秩序不是个偶然事件，它来自上帝的普世理智，logos。这个logos不好译，也指理性解释，音译就是逻各斯。从此，逻各斯就扮演一个重要角色，所有事物的本质都要由它来解释。
而逻各斯是超越自然的，因为它要寻找事物永恒的本质。而我们说过，在西方思维里，永恒的本质只存在于超越自然的世界里。
所以逻各斯就导致西方哲学偏爱永恒而不是过程和变动，和相信人类理性拥有超越自然的力量。
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We noted that in the west, many believe that our world is “a single-ordered whole” and deny that there are many world orders. The word Cosmos is from a Greek word kosmos which means "orderly arrangement". Pythagoras is said to have been the first to apply this word to "the universe". It was later extended to the whole physical world, including the earth.
Before this single-ordered world, there was Chaos.
It is the notion of a single-ordered world that leads to the development of rationalism in the west. In order to find a cosmos i.e. order out of the vagueness of chaos, it is natural that the source of order must be determined. Heraclitus (540 BC – 480 BC) started the search when he said that the process of change from chaos to order is not a haphazard movement but the product of God’s universal Reason (logos). Since then, logos meaning rational account began to play a significant role and the nature of things was to be accounted for by recourse to logos.
在单一世界秩序之前，那里是一片混乱。
单一世界秩序的概念，导致西方理性主义的发展。为了要知道混乱到秩序的过程，必须找出秩序的来由。Heraclitus就首先提出了，从混乱到秩序不是个偶然事件，它来自上帝的普世理智，logos。这个logos不好译，也指理性解释，音译就是逻各斯。从此，逻各斯就扮演一个重要角色，所有事物的本质都要由它来解释。
而逻各斯是超越自然的，因为它要寻找事物永恒的本质。而我们说过，在西方思维里，永恒的本质只存在于超越自然的世界里。
所以逻各斯就导致西方哲学偏爱永恒而不是过程和变动，和相信人类理性拥有超越自然的力量。
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We noted that in the west, many believe that our world is “a single-ordered whole” and deny that there are many world orders. The word Cosmos is from a Greek word kosmos which means "orderly arrangement". Pythagoras is said to have been the first to apply this word to "the universe". It was later extended to the whole physical world, including the earth.
Before this single-ordered world, there was Chaos.
It is the notion of a single-ordered world that leads to the development of rationalism in the west. In order to find a cosmos i.e. order out of the vagueness of chaos, it is natural that the source of order must be determined. Heraclitus (540 BC – 480 BC) started the search when he said that the process of change from chaos to order is not a haphazard movement but the product of God’s universal Reason (logos). Since then, logos meaning rational account began to play a significant role and the nature of things was to be accounted for by recourse to logos.
And logos belongs to the region of Transcendence because logos seeks permanent truth in the way things are, and this, as we have noted, can be found only in the transcendent realm.
The notion of logos also leads to the philosophical preference of permanence over process and changes in the west, and believe that human rationality possesses a transcendent power.
The notion of logos also leads to the philosophical preference of permanence over process and changes in the west, and believe that human rationality possesses a transcendent power.
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