F. C. T. Moore

How Myths Die

times the framework, sometimes the code, sometimes the message of the myth, but preserving always the existence of the myth as such. These transformations thus observe a kind of principle of conservation of mythic matter, by the terms of which from one myth another can always emerge.

The Two Persons

Descartes’s classical statement of the view that the human person consists of two individual substances, the body and the soul, has often been attacked, and has been attacked from various points of view. Many of these attacks, however, so far from rejecting what is usually known as Cartesian dualism, have merely launched the same doctrine under a new rig. They have distinguished between mental and physical objects, processes and cognitions (between ideas and material things, sensation and introspection, and so forth); they have distinguished mental from physical language by the application of one criterion of intentionality or another; they have distinguished reasons from causes; they have distinguished the body as an object in the world from the body as an embodied subject.