When did myth become philosophy?

Question

When did myth become philosophy?

Answer 1

Huh? When and where did this happen?

The values and beliefs of our forebears had been passed down through generations in the form of stories. WHY? Stories are easy to remember, and stories are easy to tell.

The perfect examples are the greek myths(stories/tales/ fables.

Other people call these stories legends..

So we learned from them.  They are your ancestors philosophies. ARent they smart?

Answer 2

In the beginning...

Answer 3

there is no tying between myth or philosphy except by the fact that some myths teach morals

Answer 4

Myth became religion; theology contains philosophical principles applied to mythology. But they are not one-and-the-same.

"It is curious to observe how the theory of what is called the

Christian church sprung out of the tail of the heathen mythology. A

direct incorporation took place in the first instance, by making the

reputed founder to be celestially begotten. The trinity of gods that

then followed was no other than a reduction of the former plurality,

which was about twenty or thirty thousand: the statue of Mary

succeeded the statue of Diana of Ephesus; the deification of heroes

changed into the canonization of saints; the Mythologists had gods for

everything; the Christian Mythologists had saints for everything;

the church became as crowded with one, as the Pantheon had been with the other, and Rome was the place of both. The Christian theory is little else than the idolatry of the ancient Mythologists,

accommodated to the purposes of power and revenue; and it yet

remains to reason and philosophy to abolish the amphibious fraud."

Thomas Paine

"The Age of Reason"

Answer 5

Philosophy represents a departure from the mentality of myth.

Answer 6

It didn't really. Though Greek myth certainly did influence all of Greek thought, including Greek philosophy.

Answer 7

Philosophy isn't myth, nor is myth philosophy.  Where did you pick up this idea?

-John