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- Title
The Myth of Er as Rationalizing Recording Device.
- Authors
Weinman, Michael
- Abstract
This essay introduces the idea of a rationalizing recording device, a mechanism by which the thoughts and actions of one or more persons are both preserved and made more accessible to reason. Plato's Myth of Er is depicted as being such a device, since its story is cinematic in the contemporary sense. Just as films can affect viewers by making one aware of thoughts that cannot be carried in the medium of the moving image itself, so too does Plato express his thoughts about the telos of the cosmos and the moral judgment one must make when confronted with choosing how to live through the external medium of a moving image.
- Subjects
MYTHOLOGY; POETRY (Literary form); DIALECTIC; NARRATIVES; MORAL judgment
- Publication
Value Inquiry Book Series, 2019, Vol 332, p100
- ISSN
0929-8436
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1163/9789004398290_007