This book will attempt to achieve a constructive and positive
correla tion between mythic-symbolic language and philosophical
anthropolo gy. It is intended as a reflection on the philosophical
accomplishment of Paul Ricoeur. The term mythic-symbolic language
in this context means the language of the multivalent symbol given
in the myth with its psychological and poetic counterparts. The
term symbol is not con ceived as an abstract sign as it is used in
symbolic logic, but rather as a concrete phenomenon - religious,
psychological, and poetic. The task inherent in this correlation is
monumental when one considers the dual dilemma of problematic and
possibility which is at its heart. The prob lematic arises out of
the apparent difficulty presented by the so-called challenge of
modernity which seems to require the elimination of my
thic-symbolic language as an intelligible mode of communication.
Mythic-symbolic language is sometimes eliminated because in a world
molded by abstract conceptualizations conceptUalizations of
science, such a language is thought to be unintelligible. The claim
is that its "primitive" explana tions have been transcended by our
modernity. Others believe that the problem of mythic-symbolic
language is the problem of the myth. If the mythic forms of
language could be eliminated, the truth of such language could be
preserved through its translation into an intelligible mode of
discourse. The problematic is heightened further by the relation of
consider ations of language to philosophical anthropology."
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