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The Christian bible in John I saying "In the beginning was the word".
This part of the bible is Greek and the Greek word for "word" should be "logos". Logos is thought of as constituting the controlling principle of universe. That is, logos is what gives the universe form. Logos is a better word than the word "god", because it does not have a personality, and is not mythological being, that we have to have faith in order to believe in. We can study logos through any of the sciences and the faculty reason. This is very important to understanding the reasoning behind democracy, and how democracy brings man to the highest morality.
Wikipedia defines reason like this:
| The faculty of reason, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationality - rationality , or the faculty of discursive reason (in opposition to "intuitive reason") is a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind#Mental_faculties - mental ability found in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_being - human beings and normally considered to be a definitive characteristic of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_nature - human nature . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason#cite_note-0 - [1] It is closely associated with such human activities as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language - language , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science - science , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art - art , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics - mathematics and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy - philosophy .
Reason, like habit or intuition, is a means by which thinking comes
from one idea to a related idea. But more specifically, it is the way http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationality - rational beings propose and consider explanations concerning http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cause - cause and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect - effect , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True - true and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False - false , and what is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good - good or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad - bad . In contrast to reason as an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_noun - abstract noun , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason_%28argument%29 - a reason is a consideration which explains or justifies some event, phenomenon or behaviour. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason#cite_note-mw-1 - [2] The ways in which human beings reason through an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument - argument are the subject of inquiries in the field of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic - logic .
Reason is closely identified with the ability to self-consciously change http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belief - beliefs , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attitude_%28psychology%29 - attitudes , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tradition - traditions , and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institution - institutions , and therefore with the capacity for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom - freedom and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-determination_%28philosophy%29 - self-determination . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason#cite_note-2 - [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason#cite_note-2 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason#cite_note-2 -
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