Jason Jorjani

And Epimetheus kind of begs Prometheus to be involved in the project of the creation of man. And Prometheus subcontracts part of the design of humans to Epimetheus. Epimetheus forgets to endow humans with an essence particular to our species.

So according to the Greek way of thinking, all different various animals had a species being, an essence that defines that species as what it is, gives it its purpose. Remember we were talking about final causes earlier? Yeah. Telos, purpose, aim of a species or an organism. So Epimetheus forgets to give a purpose, a telos, to man.

So according to the Greek way of thinking, all different various animals had a species being, an essence that defines that species as what it is, gives it its purpose. Remember we were talking about final causes earlier? Yeah. Telos, purpose, aim of a species or an organism. So Epimetheus forgets to give a purpose, a telos, to man.

So according to the Greek way of thinking, all different various animals had a species being, an essence that defines that species as what it is, gives it its purpose. Remember we were talking about final causes earlier? Yeah. Telos, purpose, aim of a species or an organism. So Epimetheus forgets to give a purpose, a telos, to man.

It means we're not born with any purpose that's designed, that's embedded in us the way that it is in the case of certain insects or any other non-human animals. And therefore, we're left to define our own purpose. through the development and use of technology. So the human is an existentially uncompleted being. Right. Who necessarily has to complete himself through the use of technology.

It means we're not born with any purpose that's designed, that's embedded in us the way that it is in the case of certain insects or any other non-human animals. And therefore, we're left to define our own purpose. through the development and use of technology. So the human is an existentially uncompleted being. Right. Who necessarily has to complete himself through the use of technology.

It means we're not born with any purpose that's designed, that's embedded in us the way that it is in the case of certain insects or any other non-human animals. And therefore, we're left to define our own purpose. through the development and use of technology. So the human is an existentially uncompleted being. Right. Who necessarily has to complete himself through the use of technology.

This idea is at the heart of the myth of Prometheus, and it's very beautifully symbolized, where when Prometheus finds out that, shit, my dumb brother, my forgetful brother, didn't give these creatures any purpose... In the essence, Athena comes and helps out. She has a special relationship with Prometheus, Athena. He tried to seduce her at one point.

This idea is at the heart of the myth of Prometheus, and it's very beautifully symbolized, where when Prometheus finds out that, shit, my dumb brother, my forgetful brother, didn't give these creatures any purpose... In the essence, Athena comes and helps out. She has a special relationship with Prometheus, Athena. He tried to seduce her at one point.

This idea is at the heart of the myth of Prometheus, and it's very beautifully symbolized, where when Prometheus finds out that, shit, my dumb brother, my forgetful brother, didn't give these creatures any purpose... In the essence, Athena comes and helps out. She has a special relationship with Prometheus, Athena. He tried to seduce her at one point.

And Athena comes and helps out by giving man his soul in the form of a butterfly. So what substitutes for our lacking essence is a butterfly. That's the soul of man. Well, what's a butterfly the symbol of? Metamorphosis. The caterpillar becoming the butterfly.

And Athena comes and helps out by giving man his soul in the form of a butterfly. So what substitutes for our lacking essence is a butterfly. That's the soul of man. Well, what's a butterfly the symbol of? Metamorphosis. The caterpillar becoming the butterfly.

And Athena comes and helps out by giving man his soul in the form of a butterfly. So what substitutes for our lacking essence is a butterfly. That's the soul of man. Well, what's a butterfly the symbol of? Metamorphosis. The caterpillar becoming the butterfly.

Yes, yes. Yes, perfectly. And so, you know, it's another way of saying that it's up to us what we make ourselves. It's up to us. We have the freedom of a butterfly and we have the metamorphic potential of the caterpillar. and through technology without which we cannot survive, without which we wouldn't even be human. You know that pre-human hominids evolved into us by using technology

Yes, yes. Yes, perfectly. And so, you know, it's another way of saying that it's up to us what we make ourselves. It's up to us. We have the freedom of a butterfly and we have the metamorphic potential of the caterpillar. and through technology without which we cannot survive, without which we wouldn't even be human. You know that pre-human hominids evolved into us by using technology

Yes, yes. Yes, perfectly. And so, you know, it's another way of saying that it's up to us what we make ourselves. It's up to us. We have the freedom of a butterfly and we have the metamorphic potential of the caterpillar. and through technology without which we cannot survive, without which we wouldn't even be human. You know that pre-human hominids evolved into us by using technology

fire made it easier to chew food and the human the shape of the human skull changed because of that since we didn't need huge chomper jaws anymore right so the very morphology of the homo sapien was in the first place defined by a certain technology technological innovation so we're intrinsically technological beings with a metamorphic potential that's unique in nature and that means that our evolutionary horizon is open we can decide what it is we want to become which is

fire made it easier to chew food and the human the shape of the human skull changed because of that since we didn't need huge chomper jaws anymore right so the very morphology of the homo sapien was in the first place defined by a certain technology technological innovation so we're intrinsically technological beings with a metamorphic potential that's unique in nature and that means that our evolutionary horizon is open we can decide what it is we want to become which is

fire made it easier to chew food and the human the shape of the human skull changed because of that since we didn't need huge chomper jaws anymore right so the very morphology of the homo sapien was in the first place defined by a certain technology technological innovation so we're intrinsically technological beings with a metamorphic potential that's unique in nature and that means that our evolutionary horizon is open we can decide what it is we want to become which is

Very freeing, but also incredibly dangerous.