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concept: conceptual realm

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The genealogy of suspension as seen from the Greek and/or pseudo-Greek taxonomy of the conceptual. A conceptual map of Socratic-Abrahamic inheritance.

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Major historical shifts

From Greek to Medieval

ontos → being → God

ontology becomes theology

telos → divine purpose

teleology becomes theological design

logos → divine reason

especially in Christianity (Logos = Christ)

Early Modern (Descartes → Enlightenment)

telos declines

replaced by mechanistic causation

techne rises

becomes technology (instrumental mastery)

logos narrows

becomes rationality, logic

mythos devalued

seen as superstition

19th–20th century

Major fragmentation:

Ontos

becomes ontology in analytic philosophy

revived existentially by Martin Heidegger

Eidos

transformed in phenomenology (Husserl):

“eidetic structures”

Logos

splits into:

logic (formal systems)

language (analytic philosophy)

Mythos

rehabilitated:

Friedrich Nietzsche

Sigmund Freud

structural anthropology

Ethos

becomes:

ethics (normative theory)

or cultural ethos

Telos

largely rejected in science

partially revived in:

biology (function)

philosophy of action

Techne

becomes:

modern technology (very different connotation)

critiqued by Heidegger:

technology as enframing

Current use in Anglosphere philosophy

Term Still active? How used today

ontos ✅ (via ontology) metaphysics, existence claims

eidos ⚠️ niche phenomenology, some analytic metaphysics

techne ⚠️ indirect philosophy of technology

telos ⚠️ limited revival philosophy of biology, ethics

logos ⚠️ fragmented logic, language, reason

mythos ✅ cultural theory narrative, ideology

ethos ✅ widely used ethics, cultural norms

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