Human Transcending on the Pathway of Moral Creative Becoming

Abstract

A central thesis of Phenomenology of Life, namely the creativity interests us especially in its moral dimension as a significant opportunity of human being to transcend the limits of existence. Our approach focuses on the semantic richness of Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka’s concept of “Promethean logos”. Beyond the most representative mode of rationality tied to the inventive/creative manifestation of human being, we can find an ethos. The very suggestive choice of the phenomenologist of life for the Promethean symbol is fully worth to be explored in articulations that mark the human moral upsurge; eventually, the elevation of uniqueness to the status of an agent-self-creator-in-moral-becoming. In this essay, we aim to disclose a few particularities of a complex ethos in tonality with the Promethean semantics. It is an ethos with and without “hubris”, conveying and enlightening the ideal of human excellence to which “homo ethicus” unfolds his eternal aspiration to transcend the reality, by cultivating some Titan-alike virtues.