Myth and philosophy
Is philosophy a mythology?why
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Myth and philosophy’ examines the many positions held on the relationship between myth and philosophy. Some philosophers assert that, antithetically to moderns, primitives think ‘mythopoeically’, which means concretely, uncritically, and emotionally. Philosophical and mythopoeic ways of thinking are more than different conceptions of the world. They are different perceptions of the world: the coming of rain after a drought is ascribed not to atmospheric changes but to, say, the defeat of a rival god by the rain god, as described in myth. Some philosophers translate myth into existentialist terms in order to make its meaning palatable to moderns. For them, myth is a philosophical tale, and myth for them is philosophy. 1
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