New Myth
It is time for a new myth. Not a myth based in mysticism. But myth as story or fable. For the purpose of telling a story myth is neutral. There can be good ideas or bad ideas taught by myth. What is important here is the evolution of ideas and their correspondence with fundamental truth. For this purpose, we should use myth to teach lessons and express our values. What is the new myth to be told? It is called New Humanism. New Humanism reflects a new radical center. As philosophy is carried away by trajectories and regressions which result in strange mysticisms and anti-humanism, we must look for a revival of humanism in a radical sense. What is meant here by radical humanism is a fully empowered agency, creativity, and freedom of the individual. Yet not an unguided will of the individual committed to transgression for the sake of freedom of choice alone. It is to be based in an ethical egoism - an acknowledgement that the will of the individual is in social solidarity with other fell