Showing posts with label myth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label myth. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
From the Archives: The Self and its Sources Part 14
How does this sacred transcendence come about?
An example from Aztec myth.
Is there another way to create transcendence?
Friday, May 17, 2013
From the Archives: The Self and its Sources Part 12
Democracy as the myth of the death of kings (Charles I and Louis XVI).
Plato: let no one disturb the small stone that separates friendship and enmity.
Prestige: those illusions that kept us from slaughtering one another.
The Caiaphas principle: it is better that one should die than the whole nation be destroyed.
Monday, May 13, 2013
From the Archives: The Self and its Sources Part 10
More definitions of "plot": the main story.
Myth (an operative fiction with its fictionality suppressed).
Western skepticism and the scientific spirit have a moral core.
Plot: a secret plan or scheme.
Monday, April 29, 2013
Monday, November 12, 2012
From the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 174
The effects of the Gospel continued: gathering and scattering.
Myth veils sacred violence so as to hide its morally troubling aspects. Myth tricks violence into spending itself on victims whose death will provoke no reprisals. To avenge a death is to reenter the sacrificial system
Saturday, November 10, 2012
From the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 173
The effects of the Gospel continued: the ethics of war...mythologizing of violence
Monday, August 06, 2012
Saturday, August 04, 2012
From the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 124
The Parthenon frieze continued...
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| Papyrus Fragment |
The founding violence we could not see…at the heart of Athenian culture.
Thursday, August 02, 2012
From the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 123
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| The Parthenon Frieze |
Seeking a respite from the Gospel's revelation, Europe turned to Athens...
When cultural paradigms come to an end we often look for a marker - the Parthenon Frieze
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
From the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 122
Moving from a world of myth to a world of Gospel. Conventional culture lasts from the moment of its founding violence until the sacrality of that violence wears off. Everyone knows the enlightenment project is over.
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
From the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 115
The forces of myth versus the forces of the Gospel
"You build the tombs of the prophets whom your ancestor's killed..."
Monday, July 09, 2012
From the Archives: Poetry of Truth Part 111
The Greek word for truth: alethia - to stop forgetting...comparing the story of Cain and Abel with the Roman myth of Romulus and Remus.
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