i'VE BEEN "ABT TO" SEARCH ALL NIGHT LONG (ooops, sorry caps lock) to serch for a ref to an awesome quote by campbell that i'm using in my research prop for my dissertation. It's very succinct, but so on the money (if you will - i've been up all nite ok!

So now i've joined this tribe (erm, hi all!), i shall quote it and then find it's reference - i know i wrote the ref s/where like a year ago and probably even have the book i got it from, but meh, you have inspired me!

and you get some disstn stuff too ... lazy bleary eyed copy n pasting job!



To strengthen my argument, I examine the mythological, poetic and spiritual literature by writers as diverse as Aristophanes, Hesiod, Ovid, St. Augustine, Rumi, Nietzsche, Machiavelli and other thinkers. On the various forms of love and its relation to theo-politics and morality, no scholar has approached this research question in the method I have chosen, nor fully explored the mythological and poetic approaches that Plato, Rousseau and Goethe used to develop their thought. Please see 3.3 for further explanation of this.



Using Goethe's description of the power of feminine love as a springboard; the ability to forgive and redeem even those most sinful of humanity in his Faust (1992), I will try to show these themes are at the heart of each thinkers' political, moral and theological thought. As Joseph Campbell pointed out, "The basic theme of mythology is that the visible world is supported and sustained by an invisible world."

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I hope to show that the mythological, poetic and novelistic approaches explored in my dissertation will shed some light upon their use of mythology. Each thinker was well-versed in the poetry of his and of earlier times. Indeed, Socrates has always been known as the philosopher-poet, and used a great deal of Homer, Aristophanes, Hesiod and Pindar, to name a few, in his works (REFS!).

~ namaste and google me well! ~
eury