Saturday, June 22, 2019

The detachment from Myth

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Western philosophers have made a sustained effort to remove myth from education and life, thus threatening to strip from us the ability to examine and embody those structures that provide a model for decision making in complex situations, and condemning us to live within the fog of theories about knowledge. Nietzsche writes ‘Mankind today, stripped of myth, stands famished among all his pasts and must dig frantically for roots’. 

Antonio T de Nicolás, from the preface to The Bhagavad Gita, the ethics of decision making. 

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