Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Ultimate Values
We seek justice and social order.
We tell ourselves a myth about procedural
due process
Like Adam Smith's invisible handour
myth tells us that the best way to achieve
justice is through an adversarial system
governed by fair procedures.
Greek Mythology
Themis (Order or Law)
Three Daughters
Dike (Justice)
Eirene (Peace)
Eunomia (Harmony)
Compare:
Kenneth Star or David Boies
Vs.
William Kunstler or Morris Dees
Justice Scalia
Vs.
John or Thurgood Marshall
Empower change
"The ability to name your myths is the first step
to changing those which are dysfunctional in
your life."
Benjamin Sells' book The Soul of the Law
The mythic stance can help a person to
recognizing the myths, narratives, symbols, and
metaphors of one's social context and of one's
personal vision.
Critical Perspective
Myths have an essentially conservative function.
Not every tradition is worth perpetuating.
Critical Feminists and Critical Race theorists
constantly struggle against the prevailing myths
that perpetuate what they take to be an unjust
and oppressive social order.
Theirs and other similar project can benefit
greatly by adopting the mythic stance.