Autor: Flanagan, Josef

Buch: Quest for Self-Knowledge

Titel: Quest for Self-Knowledge

Stichwort: Erfahrung, religiöse; M. Eliade, Ontologie, archaische

Kurzinhalt: Mircea Eliade, Phänomenologie; archaische Ontologie;

Textausschnitt: () Such myths provide a people with an explanation of how and why things began to be. Because these myths account for the origin of the being of things, Eliade refers to them as 'ontological' stories whose meanings are expressed and communicated symbolically.
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Probably more than any other scholar of this century, Eliade is responsible for making people aware that knowing a community means understanding their myths, not in any abstract way, but as those myths were or actually are being lived by the people who have come to believe them by living and performing them. For Eliade, a myth can lose its 'lived meaning'
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In other words, any social, political, or economic activity of primitive communities had an origin that was analogous to the origin of the cosmos out of chaos.