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Anthropological philosophy (n.) is a form of philosophy concerned with the phenomenology of the human person, interpersonal relationships, and metaphysics.
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Myth (n.) is a symbolic and pre-logical mode of expression (2) a story which serves political functions (3) held together by the single principle of emotional unity.
Myth (n.) is a mode of thinking and conceptualizing the cosmos. For mythical thought there is no sense of history, of the passage of time, or the sequence of events.
Myth (n.) is not representative or symbolic of some phenomenon, it is itself that phenomenon. The ''image' does not represent the ''thing''... it does not merely stand for the object, but has the same actuality, so that it replaces the thing's immediate presence.
Myth (n.) is always in service of political functions.
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Nuclear power's (n.) release has changed everything except our way of thinking.
Nuclear power (n.) is one hell of a way to boil water.
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Rational thinking (n.) cannot 'coerce' someone to start out from a new position (pace heidegger who warned against 'adjusting to the diversity of positions found among 'philosophizing people').
Rational thinking (n.) cannot 'coerce' someone to start out from a new position.
Ritual (n.) is not sympathetic magic, nor is it merely ''functional'. In ritual, history and myth, image and object become merged into a single identity.