ABSTRACT
The actual disengagement of being from any necessary link with matter often comes to the incipient philosopher as a revelation after a long journey through darkness. It follows, logically and as a matter of experience, that the philosopher penetrates the ratio entis by fashioning new and more elaborate phantasm constructs within which he reads the meaning of being. What follows is an exploration of the psychology of myth and symbolism in judgment and a discussion of certain implications that this interplay has for the philosopher in his concrete approach to the truth, an approach that is profoundly influenced by history and all the cultural contingencies implied by the historical order. The ritual theory of myth has been advanced by Cassirer and others. Myth is described as a narrative linked with a rite. Myth was conquered rationally when it was penetrated and understood. The uncovering of this “implicit” content in human knowledge exorcised the myth.
