A cognitive account of manipulative sympathetic magic

IF 3.6 3区 哲学 0 RELIGION
Ze Hong
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Abstract

ABSTRACT Frazer’s theory of sympathetic magic has been extremely influential in both anthropology and comparative religion, yet the manipulative aspect has not been adequately theorized. In this paper, I formalize sympathetic magical action and offer a naturalistic explanation of manipulative sympathetic magic by attributing it to a combination of environmental regularities (i.e., things that are similar and/or physically proximate tend to co-vary) and human causal cognition (i.e., the tendency to mistake correlation as causation), and supply ample ethnographic and historical evidence for my arguments. In doing so I also specify the variables involved and re-classify sympathetic magic into four distinct types for analytic convenience.
对操控性交感魔法的认知描述
弗雷泽的交感魔法理论在人类学和比较宗教学中都有很大的影响,但其操纵方面的理论还没有得到充分的阐述。在本文中,我将交感魔法行为形式化,并通过将其归因于环境规律(即相似和/或物理上接近的事物倾向于共变)和人类因果认知(即将相关性误认为因果关系的倾向)的组合,为操纵交感魔法提供了自然主义的解释,并为我的论点提供了充足的人种学和历史证据。在此过程中,我还指定了所涉及的变量,并将交感魔法重新分类为四种不同的类型,以便于分析。
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