The Myth of the Machine, Volume 2Shows that man himself has from the beginning been and still is the central fact of human life today. |
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... Descartes could not of course foresee that this one - sided effort to ' conquer nature ' would bring a special danger , the closer it approached realization : that of dispossessing and displacing man himself . But though we must now ...
... Descartes could not of course foresee that this one - sided effort to ' conquer nature ' would bring a special danger , the closer it approached realization : that of dispossessing and displacing man himself . But though we must now ...
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... Descartes ' contemporary Gassendi saw the weakness of his position . " You will say , " he wrote Descartes , " I am mind alone . . . . But let us talk in earnest , and tell me frankly , do you not derive from the very sound you utter in ...
... Descartes ' contemporary Gassendi saw the weakness of his position . " You will say , " he wrote Descartes , " I am mind alone . . . . But let us talk in earnest , and tell me frankly , do you not derive from the very sound you utter in ...
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... Descartes ' God even as a hypothesis , returned to the world of dreams to discover how much of the human reality Descartes had rejected in adhering strictly to those waking moments favorable to rational investigation . What Descartes ...
... Descartes ' God even as a hypothesis , returned to the world of dreams to discover how much of the human reality Descartes had rejected in adhering strictly to those waking moments favorable to rational investigation . What Descartes ...
Contents
NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
Copyright | |
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