From Logos to Chaos

Aim. Explication of the dynamics of the concept of Logos in philosophy, as a justification for the cognizability of the world and the objectivity of its cognition.

Methodology. The methodological basis of the work is the disclosure of the immanent tendencies of 1the genesis of philosophical cognition as an experimental study of the possibilities of reason and the search for objective reality.

Results. Firstly, the connection between the change in the operationalization of the Logos and the increase in uncertainty in the methods of cognition, the criteria of truth, and the vision of the properties of being is found. Secondly, a significant indicator of the crisis of rationality has been identified, which consists in establishing a semantic identity in the modern philosophy of the concepts of chaos and Logos. Thirdly, it is shown that the desire of philosophy to get away from the value-semantic subject problematics has led to the opposite effect. The genesis of new values arises, sacralizing chaos, synthesizing religious and philosophical ideas in a new vision of the world.

Research implications. The theoretical significance of the work lies in the disclosure of cognitive factors of a person’s confidence or fear of the construction of reality and the loss of stability of reproduction of society, culture. The practical significance of the conclusions is determined by the need of modern civilization, approaching the peak of instability, for a radical ontological revision of the goals, conditions, parameters of mankind’s construction of its socio-cultural environment.

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