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Mythos & Logos Week 5 - Mythic Desperation, Gnosis & Noesis
Is Modernity right that a myth is little more than a false story, a compelling or entertaining lie?
Or is it anything we choose to call a myth? Is Star Wars a myth? Or Die Hard? Or the hypothetical "reasonable person" of legal theory, or "invisible hand" of the marketplace?
Or were the ancient Greeks right that myth is something completely different, an essential ingredient for human sanity and cultural longevity?
On Monday, 2020-12-21, we continue our step-by-step journey toward answering these questions.
We further explore philosopher Kenneth Smith's system for describing modes of thought, character, soul, spirit, culture, and historical epochs. He draws on Classical Greek sources, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Kafka, Dostoyevsky, and Hannah Arendt, among many others, who approached these questions from different angles, triangulating on the truth of myth. Smith synthesizes their philosophies into a coherent framework for understanding human diversity and our relationships to ourselves, each other, nature, and the sacred.
As we work our way carefully through this essay, we take side journeys into these different philosophies, so these seminars are a cross between a critique of the essay, an informal discussion of the things that occur to us along the way, and a survey course of existential philosophers.
If you're the kind of weirdo we are, it's all great fun. See you there!
From the essay:
"Myth is the quintessence or ultimate archetype of intuitive / rightbrained / gnosic / creative thinking: it is the paradigmatic concentration, application, task, teleology, and mode of energy of this kind of figurative or concretizing thinking, that seeks to make truth graphic or palpable, revelatory or feelingly authoritative rather than just permitting it to dissipate and be volatilized into one-sidedly abstract terminology and ideas. Myth is a strategy of analogical and metaphoric truthmongering, related to the concept that medieval philosophy of rhetoric (e.g., John of Salisbury) called eloquence, the truth put in its most persuasive form. Myth is not petty truth but truth in a grand mode, it ruptures the artificial apparatus of false distinctions and dysrelations, the conventional or doxic septa that separate organically related issues from one another: myth is the infinitization of the finitized world-order that ordinarizing or mediocritizing intellect/ego has perpetrated all across society (modern society most especially). Myth makes truth whole-mindedly experienceable rather than schematically or formalistically skeletalized and arid, bled white of all the energies of life. In the warfare between what the Old Testament calls the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge, myth is knowledge fighting on the side of life, against the “deathworks” of nihilistic consciousness and science."
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