http://dangerousintersection.org/2006/05/17/how-we-really-think-about-religion-and-politics-the-power-of-metaphors/ Human Animals at the Crossroads of Culture, Science, Religion and Media Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:03:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://dangerousintersection.org/2006/05/17/how-we-really-think-about-religion-and-politics-the-power-of-metaphors/comment-page-1/#comment-30919 Metaphors at work: the connection between warm temperature and warm personality | Dangerous Intersection Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:38:37 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=177#comment-30919 [...] previously posted on the work of Mark Johnson and George Lakoff, who have argued that human thought is often [...] [...] previously posted on the work of Mark Johnson and George Lakoff, who have argued that human thought is often [...]

]]> http://dangerousintersection.org/2006/05/17/how-we-really-think-about-religion-and-politics-the-power-of-metaphors/comment-page-1/#comment-220 Cynthia Jay Sat, 20 May 2006 03:14:23 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=177#comment-220 Most prepositions refer primarily to positions in space: up, down, in, out, around, with, so their use infers metaphor. I must look up the distinction between metaphor and analogy. It is interesting that a school of Christian thought considered/considers all the features of creation as metaphors for the divine: the delicacy of the flower or the inner ear, the fury and awesomness of the volcano, the immensity of the heavens. Hopkins wrote a poem on "Our Lady compared to the air we breathe". I took tennis lessons in Nantucket some twenty years ago, and was amazed at how my instructions, like Hamlet, were full of quotations: "Don't lose your grip", "keep your eye on the ball", etc. Swimming: "coming up for air", J"don't hold your breath" "go with the flow". I have always been fond of floating metaphors", events, actions or objects that seem to have an unspecified metaphorical content. Two people sitting on the beach, untangling kite strings. Most prepositions refer primarily to positions in space: up, down, in, out, around, with, so their use infers metaphor.
I must look up the distinction between metaphor and analogy.
It is interesting that a school of Christian thought considered/considers all the features of creation as metaphors for the divine: the delicacy of the flower or the inner ear, the fury and awesomness of the volcano, the immensity of the heavens. Hopkins wrote a poem on “Our Lady compared to the air we breathe”.
I took tennis lessons in Nantucket some twenty years ago, and was amazed at how my instructions, like Hamlet, were full of quotations: “Don’t lose your grip”, “keep your eye on the ball”, etc. Swimming: “coming up for air”, J”don’t hold your breath” “go with the flow”.
I have always been fond of floating metaphors”, events, actions or objects that seem to have an unspecified metaphorical content. Two people sitting on the beach, untangling kite strings.

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