TV: You like to use the term “humanist philosophy” as an alternative to the commonly used distinction between “continental” and “analytical” philosophy. Joyce used Vico’s Scienza nuova as the grid on which to base his masterpiece Finnegans Wake. And later on, at 156c4, Socratescalls a muthos the teaching accor… Hymn to Vac: Myth or Philosophy? It excludes all understanding of the world that we have which depends upon recollection and memory, including cultural memory. It could be argued that self-narrative is not a philosophical knowledge of one’s self. Myth and Philosophy is more than an interpretive study, inspired by Nietzsche and Heidegger, of the historical relationship between myth and philosophy in ancient Greece. People compare myth with science and religion. Joyce attempts to attain original connections between words of different languages and to find by this means the basis of human experience. Is it the correct chronological order of your interest? And philosophy, once born, and developed away from myth, must always return to a contact with it. But the whole system of these forms of consciousness is a kind of tragedy. Some philosophers assert that, antithetically to moderns, primitives think ‘mythopoeically’, which means concretely, uncritically, and emotionally. It is in that sense a comedic activity. TV: Are you claiming against Lyotard that philosophy actually needs a grand narrative in order to understand itself, and that insofar as philosophy is a self-reflective activity, it cannot abandon the story about itself? In what way is memory cultural? Mythology tries to answer the fundamental aspects of tradition and beliefs. The bridge to Aristotle’s God was needed for ancient Greeks since his God was a pure actuality whose powers mimicked its nature from the human mind (Undusk, 2009). Thus on the individual level the study of philosophy can help one make a life in the midst of conditions that are not ideal. And each human being has history, which is tied up with the history of the cultural world in which the human individual lives. TV: What is the relationship between narration and philosophy? Academic philosophers have somehow avoided being involved in any comedy or tragedy. Myth and Philosophy in Plato's Phaedrus. Download Ancient Myth, Religion, and Philosophy PDF for free. Finally, Joseph Campbell’s work has had a special impact on the worlds of film and literature. Perhaps this is all that has ever kept philosophy alive. How do their methods actually differ? In it I encountered the principle that the true is the whole – a principle to which I still hold. It is true that philosophy finds itself in the contemporary world very much within universities. One recent reviewer of my book Philosophy and the Return to Self-knowledge referred to its position as “premodern” in a positive way. DV: I am reminded of the view to be found in German nineteenth century philosophy; perhaps it is attributable to Lessing. Like any undertaking, philosophy has been haunted and plagued by arch-enemies. I think all the true philosophy is such. Book description. In Greek arts of discourse, poetry (myth), philosophy, and rhetoric form a triangular opposition. I came to Joyce as my fourth author only during recent years. Theory of knowledge requires as part of its theory an account of the origins of knowledge. We learn to accept the oppositions and differences that exist in the whole as real. TV: Usually the birth of philosophy is thought to come about by breaking free from mythology…. In that way philosophy will continue. Most cultures have their own creation myth. They were narratives told by poets, usually orally, in which the gods gave meaning to the world. I discovered Cassirer in the final year of my undergraduate college by reading his little book Sprache und Mythos. The effects of the power of myth. What I would say against the “postmodern condition” is that there still exist those ways of thinking which hold to the possibility of truth, the truth which is not reducible to the political or psychological conditions under which the text is formulated by the author, nor to the author’s social class, gender, or historical period. Philosophies really are narratives of a particular sort. Copyright © 1998-2021 Eurozine, www.eurozine.com. Philosophy is a kind of literature that allows itself to be guided not just by imagination, but by the imagination joined to reason. The terms “mythos” and “logos” are used to describe the transition in ancient Greek thought from the stories of gods, goddesses, and heroes (mythos) to the gradual development of rational philosophy and logic (logos). Process for which no fully rational justification can be given once born, and Exegesis.... May decide on his own authors, which was suggested to me by Vico s! 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