The Principles of Mythical Consciousness in Cassirer’s View of the Narrative of Mem and Zen

Abstract

Human being did not immediately start with philosophy and intellectual forms to become aware of him-self and the world around him, before reaching a practical wisdom and logic, he spent a long period of his life in another kind of knowledge, which Cassirer describes as mythical consciousness. This paper depends on a descriptive analytical method to discuss the most important contents and components of the example of <mythical consciousness> from the perspective of Cassirer in the narrative of (Mam u Zeen) in order to show that the type and number of non-philosophical and cognitive components of narrating (Mam u Zeen) are on which bases. The result of this study shows that this Masnavi with all its content, historical and geographical diversity has some structural characteristics in common the most important are: cognitive and weak non cognitive, narration, abandoned traditions, repetition, coincidence, fates, The circular characteristics, parallels and confrontations associated with non-philosophical and mythological knowledge are involved in various ways and within the framework of characters, time, place, mythical numbers and destiny.