The Diversion of the Human · The relationship between the human dimension and death is, in Plato’s Protagoras, completely ignored in the narration of the myth of Prometheus made by the sophist. Yet, in Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound, the first fault that the Titan attributes to himself consists in having diverted man’s attention from his own mortal destiny. This essay offers a reading of Prometheus’ gift and its effects in which a radical conflict is played out between the great and progressive condition of man as the subject of knowledge and technique and the removal of that kind of knowledge which constitutes the essence of man : the knowledge of death.
