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How Philosophers Saved Myths

2008-11-15 Philosophy
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Release : 2008-11-15
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Book Synopsis How Philosophers Saved Myths by : Luc Brisson

Download or read book How Philosophers Saved Myths written by Luc Brisson. This book was released on 2008-11-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explains how the myths of Greece and Rome were transmitted from antiquity to the Renaissance. Luc Brisson argues that philosophy was ironically responsible for saving myth from historical annihilation. Although philosophy was initially critical of myth because it could not be declared true or false and because it was inferior to argumentation, mythology was progressively reincorporated into philosophy through allegorical exegesis. Brisson shows to what degree allegory was employed among philosophers and how it enabled myth to take on a number of different interpretive systems throughout the centuries: moral, physical, psychological, political, and even metaphysical. How Philosophers Saved Myths also describes how, during the first years of the modern era, allegory followed a more religious path, which was to assume a larger role in Neoplatonism. Ultimately, Brisson explains how this embrace of myth was carried forward by Byzantine thinkers and artists throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance; after the triumph of Chistianity, Brisson argues, myths no longer had to agree with just history and philosophy but the dogmas of the Church as well.

Plato the Myth Maker

2000-12-15 Philosophy
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Release : 2000-12-15
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Book Synopsis Plato the Myth Maker by : Luc Brisson

Download or read book Plato the Myth Maker written by Luc Brisson. This book was released on 2000-12-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We think of myth as a fictional story, and Plato was the first to use the term muthos in that sense. But Plato also used muthos to describe the practice of making and telling stories, the oral transmission of all that a community keeps in its collective memory. In the first part of Plato the Myth Maker, Luc Brisson reconstructs Plato's multifaceted and not uncritical description of muthos in light of the latter's famous Atlantis story. The second part of the book contrasts this sense of myth, as Plato does, with another form of speech that he believed was far superior: the logos of philosophy. Appearing for the first time in English, Plato the Myth Maker is a solid and important contribution to the history of myth, based on the privileged testimony of one of its most influential critics and supporters.

Myth

2015 Religion
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Release : 2015
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Myth by : Robert Alan Segal

Download or read book Myth written by Robert Alan Segal. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Very Short Introduction explores different approaches to myth from several disciplines, including science, religion, philosophy, literature, and psychology. In this new edition, Robert Segal considers both the future study of myth as well as the impact of areas such as cognitive science and the latest approaches to narrative theory.

Thinking Through Myths

2003-09-02 Philosophy
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Release : 2003-09-02
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Thinking Through Myths by : Kevin Schilbrack

Download or read book Thinking Through Myths written by Kevin Schilbrack. This book was released on 2003-09-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embracing a radical balance between myths illusory and functional status these eight outstanding essays, from leading academics, deconstruct problems of rationality, imagination and narrative to trace the influence of myth in our own beliefs.

Myth and Philosophy from the Presocratics to Plato

2000-08-17 Philosophy
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Release : 2000-08-17
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Book Synopsis Myth and Philosophy from the Presocratics to Plato by : Kathryn A. Morgan

Download or read book Myth and Philosophy from the Presocratics to Plato written by Kathryn A. Morgan. This book was released on 2000-08-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the dynamic relationship between myth and philosophy in the Presocratics, the Sophists, and in Plato - a relationship which is found to be more extensive and programmatic than has been recognized. The story of philosophy's relationship with myth is that of its relationship with literary and social convention. The intellectuals studied here wanted to reformulate popular ideas about cultural authority and they achieved this goal by manipulating myth. Their self-conscious use of myth creates a self-reflective philosophic sensibility and draws attention to problems inherent in different modes of linguistic representation. Much of the reception of Greek philosophy stigmatizes myth as 'irrational'. Such an approach ignores the important role played by myth in Greek philosophy, not just as a foil but as a mode of philosophical thought. The case studies in this book reveal myth deployed as a result of methodological reflection, and as a manifestation of philosophical concerns.

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