Natura umana, tecnica, volontà di immortalità: lezioni dall'epoca tragica dei Greci

In the age of the death of God, paradise is only projected and enacted by the seemingly unlim- ited power of technoscience. As a testament to it, the dream to defeat death is coming closer to become true, thus enabling humankind to achieve the status of Homo Deus. Present-day will to technopower revolves around two tenets : first, if a limit can be overcome, then it should be ; sec- ond, any purpose, meaning and justification of the actions of technoscience is to be found only in those actions themselves. If the paradise of technoscience has to exist, then the very existence of the limits of finiteness represents a repression of human vital forces in their strive towards endless self-overcoming, and a constraint to erased at all cost. But tragedies such as Prometheus bound and Antigone show that ancient Greeks, arguably the inventors of will to power, thought the opposite was true : indeed, only in its finiteness lies the root of humankind’s incredible ca- pacity to overcome (by means of tèchne) the constraints of existence. Therefore, finiteness and death should be carefully cherished like humanity’s most precious gifts, not destroyed in the race to achieve an impossible divine status.