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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... abstract , Aristotelian physics and metaphysics , and only two deal with the soul or intellect . " The questions as a whole , he points out , " are almost entirely confined to mundane subjects , such as anthropology , and medicine ...
... abstract , Aristotelian physics and metaphysics , and only two deal with the soul or intellect . " The questions as a whole , he points out , " are almost entirely confined to mundane subjects , such as anthropology , and medicine ...
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... abstract ' sense data ' or described in mathematical terms . Only cadavers and skeletons were suitable candidates for scientific treatment . At the same time , the ' material ' world , that is , the abstract world of ' physical objects ...
... abstract ' sense data ' or described in mathematical terms . Only cadavers and skeletons were suitable candidates for scientific treatment . At the same time , the ' material ' world , that is , the abstract world of ' physical objects ...
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... abstract quantitative terms : mainly , terms of money . Physical power , applied to coerce other human beings , reaches natural limits at an early stage : if one applies too much , the victim dies . So , too , with the command of purely ...
... abstract quantitative terms : mainly , terms of money . Physical power , applied to coerce other human beings , reaches natural limits at an early stage : if one applies too much , the victim dies . So , too , with the command of purely ...
Contents
NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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abstract accepted achieved activities actually already ancient authority automatic automation became become beginning brought century civilization collective communication complex continued culture demands Descartes destruction direct economy effect effort energy environment equally established existence experience exploration fact final forces functions further future give human idea improvements increase industrial institutions intelligence invention knowledge later least less limited living machine man's mass material means mechanical megamachine megatechnics merely method military mind mode moral nature necessary never objective observed once operation organic original past perhaps physical possible power system practical present production progress proved reality remained result scientific scientists seemed sense single social society space subjective success sufficient symbolic taken technical thought tion turn ultimate United universal whole world picture York