Myths and Philosophy
Dr. Swati Joshi
Myth can be seen through religion, science and even with philosophy. The book ‘Primitive Man as Philosopher’ written by Paul Radin will give glimpse about the relation of Myth and Philosophy. According to Radin myth is full of primitive assumptions, having place in the world. Radin considered that myth compact with all kind of metaphysical area which stands against the world of reality. Ernst Cassirer the German Philosopher discussed about myth that myth works in the structure of knowledge and that knowledge may be language, art or science. The French existentialist Albert Camus discussed about the decreasing factor of myth to philosophy in Greek myth of Sisyphus. The genuine function of Myth is not to show the objective representation of world
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