demythologization
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- noun
- /ˌdiːˌmɪθəˌlɒdʒɪˈzeɪʃən/
- Specialized
- Demythologization helps to clarify complex ideas by removing supernatural explanations and focusing on logical reasoning.
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Examples
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In his lecture, the philosopher discussed the demythologization of ancient myths to reveal their underlying truths.
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In another way, Thales and Aristotle are alike because they both stand on this side of the rupture of demythologization.
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The demythologization of language, as an element of the total process of Enlightenment, falls back into magic.
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Thus, as has already been observed, following Barnes, demythologization not only produces a natural world, but also a natural theology.
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The work of demythologization is, to use the term of Mourelatos, "reductivist." Not only is the natural object reduced, but so is the divinity.
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Xenophanes, by beginning the explicit demythologization of the world, implicitly distinguishes physics and metaphysics.
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In serving the breakthrough of truth, the historical process becomes a process of demythologization that effects a radical deconstruction of the positions that the natural continually reoccupied.
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The work of demythologization seems to be universal in the extant fragments of early Greek philosophy, though there is a range in the reductionism that implies the destruction of wonder.
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Each has a respective share, in general, in the work of demythologization and, second, in specific, in demythologizing Homer's Oceanus myth and in the rendering of that myth's truth in naturalistic terms.
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The demythologization of religious texts allows readers to understand their messages in a more rational way.
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- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
demythologization = demythologize (semi-transparent) = de + myth + mytholog + ize + ation
The noun is a straightforward nominalization of 'demythologize' (de- + mythologize), but the long derived chain and specialized register make it less immediately clear to average learners.
Etymology
Demythologization breaks into de- ('remove', as in defrost), myth ('old story' or 'legend'), and -ization ('the act of'). So demythologization is the act of 'removing the myth'—taking the legendary or magical parts out of a story and explaining it in plain, modern terms.