From Artifact to Habitat: Studies in the Critical Engagement of TechnologyGayle L. Ormiston Lehigh University Press, 1990 - 221 páginas Bringing together philosophy, literary criticism and textual theory, social and political theory, and the philosophy of language and cognitive science, this collection intends to establish an interpretive framework for exploring the ubiquity nd mediacy of technology. |
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Página 21
... object " is brought forth , discourse — and in this context , especially the discourse on techne— describes in advance the context and the conditions of its own de- scription . The models or paradigms we create to provide explana- tory ...
... object " is brought forth , discourse — and in this context , especially the discourse on techne— describes in advance the context and the conditions of its own de- scription . The models or paradigms we create to provide explana- tory ...
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... object supposed in posing the question " What is technology ? " — the essays that compose From Artifact to Habitat draw attention to the ways of being - with technology , or " the paths " thought pursues in an attempt to grasp how ...
... object supposed in posing the question " What is technology ? " — the essays that compose From Artifact to Habitat draw attention to the ways of being - with technology , or " the paths " thought pursues in an attempt to grasp how ...
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... objects ) ; on the contrary , they are like the very human being who notices them in that " they are there too , and there with fY . " 1 The being - with relationship thus disclosed through technical engagements is , for Heidegger ...
... objects ) ; on the contrary , they are like the very human being who notices them in that " they are there too , and there with fY . " 1 The being - with relationship thus disclosed through technical engagements is , for Heidegger ...
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... objects that this is no more than a " city of pigs , " Socrates replies The true state is in my opinion the one we have described a healthy state , as it were . But if you want , we can examine a feverish state as well . . . . For there ...
... objects that this is no more than a " city of pigs , " Socrates replies The true state is in my opinion the one we have described a healthy state , as it were . But if you want , we can examine a feverish state as well . . . . For there ...
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... objects . During a discussion of the education of the philosopher - king in the seventh book of the Repub- lic , Socrates considers what kind of teaching most effectively brings a student " into the light " of the highest or most ...
... objects . During a discussion of the education of the philosopher - king in the seventh book of the Repub- lic , Socrates considers what kind of teaching most effectively brings a student " into the light " of the highest or most ...
Índice
31 | |
Technological Consciousness and the Modern Understanding of the Good Life | 60 |
The Sacrilization of the Familiar | 74 |
Technology and the Creation of Concepts | 102 |
The Autonomy of Technology | 117 |
Evidence of Responsibility? | 132 |
Sartres Critique and the Weberian Theory of Bureaucracy | 155 |
Necessary? Constraints on Computer Models of Natural Language Understanding | 175 |
A Philosophical Critique | 196 |
Select Bibliography | 209 |
Index | 215 |
Términos y frases comunes
action activity analysis Andre Gorz argues Aristotle articulated artifacts artificial intelligence artificial system arts attempt autonomous Bacon becomes being-with being-with technology bureaucracy CARL MITCHAM cognitive concept of technology consciousness context critical Critique culture discourse Edgar Allan Poe effect essay example Existential experience expert systems Francis Bacon function Galileo Giambattista Vico habitat Heidegger human Ibid ideas ideology imagination individual Industrial issue Jacques Ellul Jean-Paul Sartre knowledge labor labor-saving device logic machines Martin Heidegger Marxism means mediacy modern moral mystery natural language natural language processing nology objects perception philosophy Plato Poe's political possible practical praxis principles problem production question reality reason relation representation response result rules Sartre Sartre's Schank science fiction scientific sense social society Socrates specific structure sublime tech techné technical techniques telescope things thought tion traditional trans translation understanding University Press Vico workers writes York
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Página 56 - Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.
Página 51 - The primary Imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM...
Página 57 - But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
Página 57 - It was his labour to turn philosophy from the study of nature to speculations upon life; but the innovators whom I oppose are turning off attention from life to nature. They seem to think that we are placed here to watch the growth of plants or the motions of the stars; Socrates was rather of opinion, that what we had to learn was how to do good and avoid evil.
Página 51 - I will not cease from Mental Fight, Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand Till we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant Land.
Página 79 - As commonly used, the refrain, or burden, not only is limited to lyric verse, but depends for its impression upon the force of monotone, both in sound and thought. The pleasure is deduced solely from the sense of identity— of repetition.
Página 52 - Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth...
Página 53 - Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling.
Página 57 - But the truth is, that the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes, are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong...
Página 43 - Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect much. It is by instruments and helps that the work is done, which are as much wanted for the understanding as for the hand.