Epimetheus

Epimetheus

Prometheus had a brother, Epimetheus, and that their names are references to human intellect. Prometheus (meaning "fore-thinker") is a smart trickster while Epimetheus (meaning "afterthinker") is foolish. Plato used the brothers to argue that nature has no meaning, humans are just afterthinkers.

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