Abstract
At first, I try to think through the signification of the notion of Bios, one of the conceptual couples that K. Kerenyi had presented in his book Dionysos. In contrast with Zoe, Bios implies a form of life that can be an object of biography, and has an existential individuality. When Bios introspects his activities, the style of his introspection is closer to evaluations than to simple descriptions. The life of Bios is fundamentally evaluative. In this sense, the notion of QOL is extremely important for Bios. When confronted with the outside world as a weak existence, a human being did not endure unpleasant feelings and adopted many techniques to overcome it positively. Bios continues to wear knowledge and technology through the technical process of inventions and discoveries in order to enhance his force as a sort of self-armor. It is true that many kind of enhancement techniques we are witnessing give us rather an impression of eccentricity. However, if we consider the life-burdened function of them, and if we situate them in the context of cultural history as successions of self-armor of Bios, this impression will possibly disappear. I think that this article can be interpreted as an effort to reinforce a political ideology of liberalism with a theory of life, at the same time with recognition of fundamentality of enhancement-like interventions to our environment, including our bodies themselves.
