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To: epicure who wrote (16553)	1/23/1998 2:28:00 PM
From: j g cordes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Nicely said and referenced to Campbell's mythological insights. We do need a MUCH BROADER vision of direction and purpose. We seem to be running into the edges of the box too often with little benefit from the bells and alarm whistles when they go off. "I want people to be doves, but there has to be a system in place to check the hawks, and I think morality does this." Yes as regards criminal intent, but just the opposite with regard to peace, love and the rest.

To: epicure who wrote (16553)	1/23/1998 3:25:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

This new morality--- if I remember Campbell--(and I may not with great accuracy so correct me if wrong)-his larger sense of morality was based on living beyond oneself and one's ego-beyond personal desires- and with a sense of man as a spiritual being. In Hero With a Thousand Faces he draws the commonalities from many cultures and many times and arrives at common truths. If myths are a culture's dreams, then we are probably in the process of creating new ones in this technological age, but by extension of Campbell's theories, these new myths will be similar at their heart to the old. It's vital that these spring from truth and not be only the throwing away of strictures. I think that's what I was afraid jg was advocating (a sort of feel good, do it mentality). There needs to be a way, as you say, of achieving a morality without unreasonable repression and judgment. But isn't any morality, by definition, going to be repressive in some way to some people, because they don't see a need to strive for more than the gratification of their baser instincts? Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for? (Browning)