The danger of "Promethean shame"

Authors

  • Reyes Mate Spain

Keywords:

Gunther, Promethean shame, superiority

Abstract

Gunther Anders coined the concept of "shame" in his book The Obsolescence of Man. Promethean." For centuries, human beings have lived the "Promethean pride" understanding This is the awareness of his superiority over the rest of the animals thanks to technology, a gift from Prometheus, as Plato tells in hisProtagoras dialogue. Long before Mar declared Prometheus "the noblest of saints" and martyrs of the philosophical calendar", for confronting the gods, Plato had celebrated him for to bring in the name of the gods the gift of fire with which humans could make up for, thanks to the technology derived from it, the insufficiencies of human nature. Proud the humans, therefore, of their technical capacity that It supplied what nature had denied it

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Published

2015-02-20

How to Cite

Mate, R. (2015). The danger of "Promethean shame". Encuentros En La Biología, 8(153), 25–26. Retrieved from https://revistas.uma.es/index.php/enbio/article/view/18057