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8 Cards in this Set
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Hesiod
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Lived:
700 B.C. Believed: People were better in the past and modern culture should strive to emulate them. |
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Heraclitus
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Lived:
500 B.C. Believed: Pre-Socratic thinker Encouraged others to use their senses, knowledge, and science for answers rather than mythological explanations for phenomena around them. |
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Plato
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Lived:
400 B.C. Believed: Absolutely hated people who made myth Believed they were degrading society Myth=LIE Logos=TRUTH |
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Euhemeros
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Lived:
300 B.C. Believed: The people who believed/accepted myths were primitive and backwards Myths were just "garbled histories" |
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Epicurus
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Lived:
500 B.C. Believed: Encouraged rationality, science, and believed philosophy can liberate one from fears of death and the supernatural Living pleasantly, honorably, and wisely |
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Sigmund Freud
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Lived:
1856-1939 A.D. Believed: Repressed traumatic experiences from a person's lifetime shape a person's psychology Dreams and literature (i.e. myth) are tamed projections of unconscious terrors |
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Carl Jung
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Lived:
1875-1961 A.D. Believed: All human psyche is the same (archetypes) We all have a collective unconsciousness |
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Joseph Campbell
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Lived:
1904-1987 A.D. Believed: "Eternity" does not refer to time, rather it refers to the Transcendent field (field of time) Myths indicate to us a "field of perfect forms" We are all just trying to become our whole self (i.e. unification) |
