Post by account_disabled on Dec 3, 2023 3:21:49 GMT -5
A way of thinking representative of the evolution of the man/nature relationship, both in the premodern and modern conception of the world and in the development of technology. From this historical junction we can carry out a series of reflections, analyzes and offer ideas for reading our time. The era of Prometheus or Dionysus The divine aspects of our time Homo videns the modification of human minds Roberto Siconolfi Webinar Prometheus the era of cold modernity Modernity asserts itself as man's will to dominate the world, as man's will to go beyond limits, as man's will to know beyond limits from this point of view, modernity is a Promethean era.
The very fact of having detached ourselves from nature, or from the Whole by using a metaphysical language, with philosophies and sciences that dualize, so to speak, the relationship with the world, which materialize the world and Web Development Services make it a mechanism from which to extract one's own, is Promethean. useful. This is what happens in the philosophical scientific field, with the res cogitans thought and the subject, to quote Descartes, who manipulates the res extensa nature and the object to his liking. This is what happens in the political sphere, with the great European empires launching themselves into colonial adventures, subjugating, sometimes brutally.
Other peoples and even going beyond the prohibitions of the premodern era going beyond the Pillars of Hercules . This is what happens in the economic sphere, with capitalist and technical development which will lead to the unprecedented accumulation of goods, natural resources and money, in the hands of increasingly restricted oligarchies. Again for Karl Marx, this is the time of Prometheus, because according to the sociologist Michel Maffesoli, this is the time of the break with historical ties, with the roots that unite the centuries and from which modern man emancipates himself.
The very fact of having detached ourselves from nature, or from the Whole by using a metaphysical language, with philosophies and sciences that dualize, so to speak, the relationship with the world, which materialize the world and Web Development Services make it a mechanism from which to extract one's own, is Promethean. useful. This is what happens in the philosophical scientific field, with the res cogitans thought and the subject, to quote Descartes, who manipulates the res extensa nature and the object to his liking. This is what happens in the political sphere, with the great European empires launching themselves into colonial adventures, subjugating, sometimes brutally.
Other peoples and even going beyond the prohibitions of the premodern era going beyond the Pillars of Hercules . This is what happens in the economic sphere, with capitalist and technical development which will lead to the unprecedented accumulation of goods, natural resources and money, in the hands of increasingly restricted oligarchies. Again for Karl Marx, this is the time of Prometheus, because according to the sociologist Michel Maffesoli, this is the time of the break with historical ties, with the roots that unite the centuries and from which modern man emancipates himself.