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rationalism |
self-conscious and critical of actions |
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Xenophanes |
complained of ethical weakness of Olympians & questioned existence of the gods |
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allegory |
saying something in a different way |
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symbolism |
something put together with something else |
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physical allegory |
brought to light hidden/mysterious truths about the world |
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etymology |
speculation about the "true meaning of a word" |
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historical allegory |
myth reveals historical, not cosmological, truth |
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euhemerism |
gods were once humans |
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moral allegory |
interpretation of myth as a system of advice on good/bad behaviors |
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Neoplatism |
a school that revived and developed many of Plato's theories. |
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The Enlightenment |
everything traditional was subject to reexamination; authority of mythical accounts & bible were questioned |
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Romanticism |
reaction to Enlightenment; saw emotional side of experience as most distinctly human. Loooved myths. |
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Sir James Frazer |
accepted validity of social evolution as an explanation w/ universal application |
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Ritual Theory of Myth |
origin of myth tied to religious ritual |
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Charter Theory of Myth |
myth served as a justification for the way tha things are |
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solar mythology |
allegory of every myth of struggle between light & darkness |
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Indo-European comparative mythology |
you can look at European myths & discover essential patterns and original meanings |
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Sigmund Freud |
myth = by-product of personal psychological forces |
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Oedipus complex |
adult male psychology arises from the sexual attraction towards his mom & hostility toward his dad |
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Carl Jung |
collective unconscious |
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Clau de Levi-Strauss |
came up with Structuralism |
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Structuralism |
meaning in a traditional story is not conveyed by content but by structural relations behind the content |
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Paris school of myth criticism |
group of Claude's followers; argue that myths must be understood in the context of other myths and aspect of a culture; there is a syntax to a body of myth. |
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Programs of Action |
Concept that finds quasi-ritualistic patterns of behavior in secular activities of human society; myths therefore serve as charters for these activities. |