From the golden days to the night of time. An ethical-anthropological reading of the Myth of the Races in Hesiod

Abstract

The present work consists of articulating two fronts. First, to highlight the importance of the myth as a complete and complex system of thought, within the framework of cultural productions that allow the humankind its installation in the world, giving precisely its “being in the world”; second, to think about the theme of this Colloquium from a reverse perspective. We will not situate ourselves in the stories that promise a golden age, a time to come of joy and happiness, but we will place ourselves in the loss of a golden time, in the distance of a full time of happiness and well-being that it is overshadowed by the behavior of the humankind brought by the hýbris.