Prometheus’ liberation: ontological aspects of the myth of the perfect man

The article tackles the urgent problem of integrating the objectified and transcendental aspects of the Self in the language of narrative-playful methodology. Prometheus’ myth is the starting object of the study and the subjects are its various interpretations: by the Aristotelian school, the Peripatetics and the Neoplatonists, where the protagonist appears as a phenomenon of profound cosmic and even supercosmic intelligence. The interpretation of the myth from the point of view of the ancient Indian worldview, understood as Lila - the Divine Cosmic Game of the eternal, formless and therefore generating all of them, the Creative Initiative of the Universe with samself through its own manifestations (in time and space) in the rhythm of cycles of unfolding and collapsing of the Universe. Prometheus’ liberation is then interpreted in the language of the narrative-playful paradigm as the thinker’s awareness of the Divine Creative Fire within the self and the cessation of non-reflexive identification with any limited physical and mental forms. Certain worldview ideas of Ortega y Gasset are shown to resonate with the “Existence Postulates” of the narrative-playful paradigm, but in the understanding based on it, are only halfway to liberation. Parallels and distinctions between the narrative-playful worldview and the emerging philosophical concepts of enactivism and evolutionary holism are explored.