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Mythos, especially in the form of dramatic narratives ex-plaining the origin and operation of the universe and the place of humans within it, is, in the early stages of humanity, a common medium to express the communal fund of wisdom that, together with rituals and ethics, shapes the social reality and is in turn shaped by it.

Whereas stories and storytellingly thrive only when people pre-serve an appreciation for the past and the future, postmodernity, with the decline of the myth of progress, has lost a sense of history and is fixated on the present. The past becomes merely a theme park to visit occasionally for entertainment, and the future is reduced to being a momen... See more

the figure of the “ wise fool ”— alternatively, the paradoxical notion that the fool may be wise and that the wise may be foolish — has a long and distin-guished pedigree, not only in the Christian tradition (e.g., the “ fool in Christ ” or the “ fool for Christ ’ s sake ” ) but also in other religions (e.g., the Sufi majzub and the Hindu avadhuta ... See more

ogos, particularly as practiced in philosophy, not only transmits the perennial truths of the community to successive generations but also inculcates the love of wisdom by which humans can live the good life.