Mythos et logos ou la différence spécifique entre l’homo rationalis et l’homo symbolicus
Mythos and Logos or the Specific Difference between Homo Rationalis and Homo Symbolicus

Summary/Abstract: If man’s science must be submitted to a new discourse upon the method, under the effect of rediscovering another law, we must determine the profile of these concepts in order to get to know homo symbolicus. The difference between the ways of being in the world of homo symbolicus and homo rationalis is extremely obvious. If homo symbolicus relies on the postulate of the Absolute, homo rationalis refuses transcendence, accepting the relativity of existence. Furthermore, the paradox of homo rationalis is that he questions the significance of existence. He assumes a new ontological situation; he appears as a subject and an agent of history, so to speak; he challenges any model of humanity, apart from his own condition, accepting a tragic existence. The originality of our research consists in reevaluating the function of images, which involves a reversal of the equation between mythos and logos, the two terms which are founders of the European cultural tradition. The insertion of the third term, imago, balances the mythos-logos binomial, aiming to adjust the rapport between reason and imagination.

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