Monday, January 16, 2006

Paul Oppenheimer's Blog

Paul Oppenheimer's Blog



This exploration of meaning and myth is quite new to me.
Of the husband who neglected his wife in Middlemarch, he sought the key to all mythologies. The days of philology were great days. So, even though I am trained in a contemporary anglophone department of philosophy I would like to tackle questions of the meaning of life.





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We are an animal who asks questions. We are an animal who makes up stories to answer our questions. These stories give meaning to our lives. Our myths give meaning to our experiences. Sometimes we must wait long before meaning emerges --- or before we can make it; I don't know which. When we are able to find/put meaning in/into a series of experiences, we make a new myth.







The myth not only solidifies the new meaning. It does more: It structures the meanings we find in later experiences. It also restructures our memories.







An idiot knows only one language. What am I if I know only one mythos?





Language shapes meaning. Language and meaning structure reality.





So, is reality proper to the beholder? Is reality socially constructed? If a person belongs to more than one culture, then what are we to say? That multiple mythoi are true, or that no mythos is true?







Is there one and only one meaning to a life? To a sequence of events experienced my multiple persons?









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