By Michael Bennett
Following a quick critique of multiculturalism Bennett means that religions nonetheless articulate an engaging method of such deep existential concerns as loss, discomfort and loss of life which fail to discover an enough reaction in rationalist cultures. He seeks to ‘translate’ such non secular options as anamnesis, comfort, the dominion of God, the sacred, redemption and sin right into a secular framework that could motivate ethical motivation.
Because cause is an inadequate resource of ethical motivation Bennett investigates how narratives, which act like myths, should be reflexively constituted and interpreted. the wealthy symbolic texture of myths could be a robust technique of encouraging humans to have interaction in an identity with the values enshrined within the secular sacred. Myths have a powerful reference to ritual practices. He explores this courting and proposes that it's completely attainable to create new rituals that consciously be aware of themselves to be rituals and may be able to offer aid for the mental variations that myths can procure.
This reflexive method of the secular sacred and myths is predicated at the cognitive, emotional and mental competence of members. all through Bennett investigates how those expertise paintings and considers quite a number facets of selfhood (autonomy, authenticity, intersubjectivity, decentredness). those talents, assisted by way of mythological narratives and rituals which may conform to the epistemological constraints of communicative rationality, are crucial in permitting an id with a mundane sacred which can supply a foundation for ethical motivation.
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