Open AccessZnanost, zgodovina, napredek: mit kot zgodba o času, ujeta med večnost in neskončnost
Author(s) -
Miha Pintarič
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
ars and humanitas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.184
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 2350-4218
pISSN - 1854-9632
DOI - 10.4312/ah.6.2.117-122
Subject(s) - mythology , the renaissance , consciousness , art , art history , humanities , literature , philosophy , epistemology
The function of myth, just like that of science, is to achieve a uniform picture of the world in the human mind. Myth, however, is based on supposed truth, not reality. Rather than a beginning, it is the end of any possible discussion. The article, based on French mediaeval and renaissance literature, introduces a view on how Western consciousness wrestled itself out of myth and into history