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In Search of Self-knowledge. Calculates Values in Myths as Culture Codes on the Example of Sisyphus, Odysseus and Oedipus.

Summary/Abstract: The article presents myths as one-sided metaphors of the journey of human rationality in search of power and knowledge (Oedipus), profit maximization (Sisyphus), autonomy (Odysseus). The presented reinterpretations show the “other” side of the values to which we have already given meaning. Ulysses owes his wisdom to the women he meets. Sisyphus' punishment of rolling a boulder up a mountain is the essence of alienated life. The hero Oedipus lost to fate, but at the end of his life he personified wisdom and fulfillment. And the modern human, “Anthropoceneman”? He loses himself in dominion on and over the Earth. His development and growth do not lead to flourishment. Power and knowledge do not guarantee freedom. The autonomy and self-knowledge of modernity threaten the human with self-destruct. The threat of the climate crisis reveals the Janus face of contemporary values.

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