I want to try and figure out what definitions and explanations you have of the term ‘myth’? — I like sushi
just looked up the Greek word "mythos" (= myth) in my dictionary of Ancient Greek Language --a huge one!. Both meanings are included, but with a slightly different description. The first meaning refers to speech, narration, story, independently of being true or false. — Alkis Piskas
As I said to @Agent Smith, Mythology has never been degraded. It has kept is "status" and value, and that's why it is still taught in schools today (the Greek ones, at least). The word "myth" is what has been degraded.I will never understood the tendency to degrade both philosophy and Greek mythology. — javi2541997
This is unfortunately true! And esp. the clergy, with the Orthodox Church in the first place. Together with fascism and totalitarianism, religious dogmatism does its best to keep people in ignorance, by either hiding or falsifying facts and history in general. I read recently what is taught in the Russian schools today about the war in Ukraine. It makes you vomit!My only guess is that some powerful people who control the education don't want to have critical thinkers. — javi2541997
You can also check this, besides @javi's excellent description of his topic: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/736855I want to try and figure out what definitions and explanations you have of the term ‘myth’ — I like sushi
I just read this definition of the word "dilemma" from a standard source (https://www.dictionary.com/browse/dilemma): "A situation requiring a choice between equally undesirable alternatives." (Stress is mine.) How can such a totally unacceptable definition survive? I value and use dictionaries a lot, but sometimes they make me mad. My Greek dictionary says "desirable or undesirable". Which is actually the case and it is pragmatic.Can you point to any myths - culture irrelevant - that revolve around this subject? — Agent Smith
Any thoughts on that semi-ramble? — I like sushi
Any thoughts on that semi-ramble? — I like sushi
(note: ‘thinking’ is not necessarily something that involved ‘words’). — I like sushi
want to know about some ancient myth that refers to or of which the central point is a dilemma or dilemmas. — Alkis Piskas
Interessante, si.re the choices needn't necessarily be undesirable ... Too, quite notably, the logical OR is inclusive. Interesting, oui? — Agent Smith
How to Do Things With Words by J.L. Austin.
According to this philopher: A statement is performative when nothing is stated or described but an act is performed. — javi2541997
"Superheroes" and celebrities. — 180 Proof
Hi Javi.I recommend you to read this paper: The Eponymous Archons of Athens — javi2541997
Same. Sorry about that! :sad:"Epic Greek dialect" and "Arcadian Greek dialect" ... — javi2541997
It may well be so. I can't know.Classical Greek culture, including philosophy, began in Ionia, whose name became the word for "Greek" in all the languages to the East,...
Interesting! Do you agree with his opinion? — javi2541997
Same.The Cypriots apparently have therefore preserved, uniquely, the writing system of their Mycenaean ancestors. — javi2541997
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