The sacrifice and the origin of culture: how can the culture be derived from the ritual sacrifice?

Exposé Philosophie & littérature Philosophie

Date de publication :

02/05/2007

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Français

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Nombre de pages :

6 pages

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grand public

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Sacrifice and Judaism

Résumé :

culture is the only thing that is proper to mankind. Other animals have no culture, or very little. We are different from other animals because we have the power to modify the nature. But culture is not only acting on nature, it's also the capacity to transmit our history to the next generation. All the texts, and these memories that are transmitted from generation to generation, that found our culture and our civilization begin with violence. To escape from the violence inherent in all societies, the community has to established common values that constitute the base of the culture. The sacrifice of Isaac, the crucifixion of Jesus or the murder of the original father are the only way to channel the violence into a unique subject. The sacrifice can be seen as the beginning of culture. culture is always violence, because violence founds it. The sacrificed object (a person, an animal or a symbolic image) is first hated and then becomes sacred. The sacrifice itself becomes an object of cult, and its symbolic repetitions are a way to channel the violence accumulated. culture and sacrifice are deeply linked, and we will see how this relation works. First, we will analyze the place of the sacrifice in the first societies, and its relation with the beginning of a culture. Then we will see if, like the transmission of culture, the sacrifice is not a mimetic phenomenon. To finish, I want to analyze the Jewish religion from the point of view of the sacrifice. There are indeed many signs of the sacrifice in the practice of the Jewish religion, and the Jewish religion is similar in many points to ancient forms of religion.