UNAS1104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Teleology, Jonathan Swift

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Symbols: can be interpreted many different ways and mean different things to different people, important because they have multiple meanings (polysamic) and can lose/gain meanings over time. Stories: tell us who we are, where we came from, and where we"re going. Myth: muthos=story, explains an event or communicates important things to a certain group of people, may be fictions, but don"t have to be. Godan where do we come from, who are we, where are we going. Illiad epic poem: story told to the greeks to tell them who they are and what"s most important. Freud, nietzsche, marx stories are cover stories for what is actually happening: freud: everything about sex, nietzsche: everything is about power, marx: everything is about oppression. Arguing about a way of how to think about art and literature (art and film) Subject to time and history (talk about periods of life) All literature has characters and we gravitate towards them the way they are drawn.

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