The storytelling is perhaps the element that has more united people in different times and at different latitudes. The stories speak directly to our souls, affecting our emotions by narrating events that everyone, universally, we can understand if you do not reason with our hearts.
In particular, the myths tell us of the human stories of events shared by all of us (birth, death, hatred, love).
The myth has always accompanied the history of mankind, but especially in the world classical greek and Latin in the Holy Scriptures and that it plays a central role.
The word mito deriva dal greco mythos e significa parola, discorso, favola, leggenda.
Attraverso il mito vengono espresse nel mondo greco e latino determinate verità morali, sociali, e religiose.
I primi grandi nemici del mito furono i Sofisti: essi si opponevano infatti a tutto ciò che non poteva essere dimostrato razionalmente.
Il mito fu invece rivalutato da Platone infatti, secondo lui, ci sono verità che non possono essere spiegate facendo uso della sola ragione e allora giunge in nostro soccorso il mito (pensiamo al bellissimo mito di Er). Aristotele però took issue with the Platonic conception of myth, fairy tales and identified with a method of considering it to be discredited because scientific knowledge.
Even in times closer to our Descartes considered as synonymous with the myth of pure fantasy and, therefore, far from being a cognitive method.
Schelling, however, revalued the myth. According to this purely logical thinking is not enough to fully understand the evolution. The mythical narrative, however, express historical truths and universal.
with positivism, the myth goes back to the crisis to be rediscovered in the early 1900s. Among the supporters of this discovery are CG Jung. Jung has extensively studied not only Greek and Roman myths, but also the religious myths.
It reminds us that man inherits from his ancestors symbols and images in the form of myth, thinking of it as coming under investigation and drawn criticism from many of his contemporaries.
From his studies on the myth and Eastern thought, Jung took the concept of collective unconscious that remains central to his thinking. According to the great Swiss psychologist, in fact, there are traces of the unconscious images called archetypes, inherited from ancestors and their common humanity. La mitologia diventa, per Jung, l’espressione di una serie di immagini che rappresentano la vita degli archetipi all’interno dell’individuo.
Vogliamo presentare, in questa sede, una serie di miti provenienti dall’oriente, in particolare dall’India nella fiducia in quella massima che ricorda che “possiamo trovare le nostre verità avventurandoci in terre straniere”.
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