Impulsi mythosa i ethosa
IMPULSES OF MYTHS AND ETHOS

Summary/Abstract: The author considers the endeavours to define ethos and to determine its realization in history to present day by analyzing the social practice and its corresponding consciousness given as mythicalmagic, religious and etic reality. The first one is connected to mythos of tribal community with its totems and tabooes, the second to deus (God) with its oldtestimonial, new testimonial and ku’ran explications, and the third to historical tendency of realization of ethos. Each of them contains constructive and destructive elements that are irrational and misteriou? which influence the cohesion and integration of the members of given community. They are influenced by mystical and alienated human powers whose effects are confronted with powerful biological drives in man, drives signified by eros which together with those powers represents demonic forces closely connected with constituional moments of ethos. Thus, human development from mythos, by way of deus on one hand, and eros on the other, to etnos as the symbol of human persistence in fighting the evil and establishing human dignity, is followed

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