If myths are born of trying to explain events with limited data, l wonder if he hadn’t been doing the same, perhaps unaware of the fact, but now on a broader scale.
Expanding on this thought, I guess myth, philosophy and scientific method would be parts of a same spectrum?
Expanding on this thought, I guess myth, philosophy and scientific method would be parts of a same spectrum?
In line with this, many ancient thinkers believed that myths - some even saying the stories of the gods - expressed mundane truths simply distorted by time and transmission. Also in line with that, ‘natural philosophy’ is an older term covering the fields we’d now regard as ‘science’, because it was seen as simply an attempt to discover the inner reasoning of the natural world, the same way philosophers attempted to discover the inner reasoning of the metaphysical world.
If myths are born of trying to explain events with limited data, l wonder if he hadn’t been doing the same, perhaps unaware of the fact, but now on a broader scale.
Expanding on this thought, I guess myth, philosophy and scientific method would be parts of a same spectrum?
…or he just liked lying from time to time. :v
In line with this, many ancient thinkers believed that myths - some even saying the stories of the gods - expressed mundane truths simply distorted by time and transmission. Also in line with that, ‘natural philosophy’ is an older term covering the fields we’d now regard as ‘science’, because it was seen as simply an attempt to discover the inner reasoning of the natural world, the same way philosophers attempted to discover the inner reasoning of the metaphysical world.