![]() This dissertation demonstrates how a team of teachers at Brigham Young University challenged the existing mindset by introducing students to non-Western texts such as the Winnebago Trickster Myth Cycle. This reshaping can, according to these men, best be done in a university setting. Boyer, Rollo May, Robert Bellah and Paul Ricoeur is a reshaping of the mythic mode of thought-a look at man's relationship to fundamental, cosmic principles. ![]() The solution to this problem suggested by men such as Theodore Hesburgh, Arthur Levine, Ernest L. According to both studies, we are in a period of history where isolation and a preoccupation with self is fragmenting not only individual psyches but societies as well. ![]() According to recent studies in the field of higher education done by the Carnegie Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, one of the most pressing needs of modern, Western man is not only to re-evaluate his nature but to re-shape definitions of human nature in order that he can transcend desires for power, money and pleasure. The Winnebago Trickster Myth Cycle, contained in Paul Radin's The Trickster, has significant notions about the nature of man that students trained in Western thought could profit from. ![]()
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