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Myth and philosophy : a contest of truths / Lawrence J. Hatab.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks BL304 .H37 1990
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hatab, Lawrence J., 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Myth.
- Philosophy, Ancient.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 383 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- La Salle, Ill. : Open Court, 1990.
- Summary:
- 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. Its conclusions go beyond the historical case study and amount to a defense of the intelligibility of myth against an exclusively 'rational' or 'objective' view of the world.
- Hatab pleads for a pluralistic notion of truth, one which permits different forms of understanding and surrenders the supposed need for a uniform or even hierarchical conception of truth.
- The historical displacement of myth by philosophy in ancient Greece is Hatab's point of departure. Rationality and science emerged as the revolutionary overthrow of myth -- but that revolution is not beyond criticism, for myth presents a meaningful expression of the world, different from, and not always commensurate with, the kind of understanding sought by philosophers. The notion that philosophy has corrected the ignorance of the past is unwarranted; furthermore, philosophy continues to exhibit elements of the mythic world from which it emerged.
- Myth and Philosophy offers a general analysis of myth and a specific analysis of Greek myth. Hatab distinguishes the different senses of truth found in mytho-poetic and rational-scientific disclosures, and presents an original treatment of Plato and Aristotle, challenging their criticisms of traditional myth.
- Contents:
- I A Phenomenological Analysis of Myth 17
- The General Framework 17
- Origins
- Lived World
- Culture
- Sacred and profane
- Mystery
- Existential transcendence
- Myth and Sense 29
- Myth and Conceptual Reason 30
- General Themes 39
- Myth and the establishment of world
- The existential circle
- Consciousness and the self
- Myth, art, and appearance
- Myth and reflection
- II Greek Myth and Religion 47
- General Characteristics 47
- Religion of the earth
- Mortality
- Gods and humans
- Festivity
- The Olympian-Titan distinction
- The Nonrational and Nonconscious in Greek Religion 56
- Sacred madness
- The shaman
- Hesiod's Theogony 63
- III Epic Poetry 69
- The World in Epic Poetry 69
- The Self in Epic Poetry 72
- The heroic ideal
- The noncentralized self
- The divine-human relation
- The Beginnings of a Break with the Epic World 88
- IV Lyric Poetry in the Archaic Age 97
- The Archaic World View 98
- The Emergence of Self-Consciousness in Lyric Poetry 103
- Pindar: Heroism's Refrain 108
- V Tragic Poetry 113
- Tragedy and Greek Religion 113
- Nietzsche on tragedy
- The link with epic poetry Dionysus
- Tragedy and the Dionysian Tradition 130
- The Self in Tragic Poetry 132
- The Tragic Poets 134
- Aeschylus
- Sophocles
- Euripides
- Tragedy and Myth 149
- VI The Advent of Philosophy 157
- The Beginnings: Hesiod and Thales 160
- The First Philosophers 164
- Xenophanes
- Anaximander
- Heraclitus
- Parmenides
- Time and Process 191
- Early Philosophy and Myth 193
- Consciousness, Unity, and Philosophy 199
- Cultural Resistance to Philosophy 202
- VII Plato 207
- Revolutionary Elements in Platonism 208
- The reflective individual
- A new view of the soul
- New intellectual criterial
- Philosophy
- Morality
- Traditional Elements in Platonism 223
- A correlation between knowing and doing
- The social self
- The rejection of Sophistic relativism and humanism
- Aristocracy in platonism
- Intuition in platonism
- Plato and Myth 237
- The Timaeus
- Plato's criticism of traditional myth
- Mythical and phenomenological aspects of Plato's Philosophy
- VIII Aristotle 259
- The Origins of Natural Philosophy 262
- Aristotle's Philosophy 266
- Individuation and desacralization
- Aristotle's conception of time
- Aristotle's Revolution 282
- Traditional Elements in Aristotle's Though 286
- The soul
- Virtue
- Teleology
- Intuition
- IX The Relationship Between Philosophy and Myth 293
- Summary Conclusions and Reflections 293
- Platonic philosophy
- Philosophy and existential meaning
- Consciousness
- Myth and Nonobjective Aspects of Thought 304
- Myth, fact, and mystery
- Subjectivity, objectivity, and pluralism
- Myth, science, and explanation
- Myth, Truth, and Certainty 317.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acc# 207523
- ISBN:
- 0812691156
- 0812691164
- OCLC:
- 21948734
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