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Plato — who may have understood better what forms the mind of man than do some of our contemporaries who want their children exp
Plato — who may have understood better what forms the mind of man than do some of our contemporaries who want their children exp
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2014-01-13
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Plato — who may have understood better what forms the mind of man than do some of our contemporaries who want their children exposed only to "real" people and everyday events — knew what intellectual experiences make for true humanity. He suggested that the future citizens of his ideal republic begin their literary education with the telling of myths, rather than with mere facts or so-called rational teachings. Even Aristotle, master of pure reason, said: "The friend of wisdom is also a friend of myth. "
Modern thinkers who have studied myths and fairy tales from a philosophical or psychological viewpoint arrive at the same conclusion, regardless of their original persuasion. Mircea Eliade, for one, describes these stories as "models for human behavior that give meaning and value to life" . He and others suggest that myths and fairy tales were derived from, or give symbolic expression to, initiation rites or other rites of passage — such as metaphoric death of an old, inadequate self in order to be reborn on a higher plane of existence. He feels this is why these tales meet a strongly felt need and are carriers of such deep meaning.
Other investigations with a depth-psychological orientation emphasize the similarities between the fantastic events in myths and fairy tales and those in adult dreams and daydreams — the fulfillment of wishes, the winning out over all competitors, the destruction of enemies — and conclude that one attraction of this literature is its expression of that which is normally prevented from coining to awareness. There are, however, very significant differences between fairy tales and dreams.
There is general agreement that myths and fairy tales speak to us in the language of symbols representing unconscious content. Their appeal is simultaneously to our conscious mind, and to our ideals as well. This makes it very effective; and in the tale’s content, inner psychological phenomena are give body in symbolic form.
In the opening paragraph, the author quotes Plato and Aristotle primarily in order to______.
选项
A、define the nature of myth
B、contrast their opposing points of view
C、support the point that myths are valuable
D、prove that myths originated in ancient times
答案
C
解析
细节推理题。根据题干关键词Plato and Aristotle定位到原文首段。原文首段引用了柏拉图和亚里士多德的观点是为了证明第二段首句的观点。原文第二段首句中的myths与选项C重现,下一句中的give meaning and value to life与选项C中的valuable对应,原文引用这两个人是为了支持神话是有价值的这样的观点。故答案为C。
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