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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Page 37
... direct in- fluence of the Sun God into a single system of power and organization : represented in diagrammatic form by the depersonalized mechanical world picture . That diagram , so widely applied in technics - and so usefully ...
... direct in- fluence of the Sun God into a single system of power and organization : represented in diagrammatic form by the depersonalized mechanical world picture . That diagram , so widely applied in technics - and so usefully ...
Page 79
... direct his own development , and to explore the abounding potentialities of his culture and personality . In Descartes ' time , the physical and mathematical sciences had not yet achieved anything like their present position of ...
... direct his own development , and to explore the abounding potentialities of his culture and personality . In Descartes ' time , the physical and mathematical sciences had not yet achieved anything like their present position of ...
Page 378
... direct reference to man's own biological and cultural antecedents . We saw how the period of exploration and colonization gave the primal vitalities of Western man fresh outlets , at the very moment that the new mechanical order began ...
... direct reference to man's own biological and cultural antecedents . We saw how the period of exploration and colonization gave the primal vitalities of Western man fresh outlets , at the very moment that the new mechanical order began ...
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