Siberian Federal University

Issue

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2016 9 (6)

Authors

Kudrin, Andrei N.

Contact information

Kudrin, Andrei N.:Khabarovsk State Institute of Culture 112 Krasnorechenskaia Str., Khabarovsk, 680045, Russia;

Keywords

δράκων; Τυφάων; Πύθων; Ἄργος; Mara; δράκων; Τυφάων; Πύθων; Ἄργος

Abstract

The article discusses the phenomenological hermeneutics of one of the darkest and mysterious characters of the early Greek mythology named Δράκων. The study is based on the four most ancient myths that we know from Homer and Apollodorus of Athens, describing the battles between Δράκων and different heroes: Apollo, Hermes, Cadmus and Jason. The author chose phenomenology as the method of his investigation following Aristotle’s thesis: “It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize (the myth-lover is in a sense a philosopher, since myths are composed of wonders); [but] wondering in the first place at obvious (τὰ προχείρα) perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising the questions about the greater matters too (τὰ προϊόντες)”. The myth therefore transmitting the archaic thought narrates εἶδεναι τὰ προχείρα, “seeing what is open in front of me”. The hermeneutic of this vision besides phenomenology needs the ontology of understanding that author finds in fundamental works of S. Kierkegaard, W. Dilthey and M. Heidegger

Pages

1307-1319

Paper at repository of SibFU

https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/20331

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