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Technology and Culture
In Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen Friis, Stig Andur Pedersen & Vincent F. Hendricks (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 311–315 (2012)
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technology and culture Aristotle seeing in it an “imitation of nature” ‐ modern thought readily picturing it as a demiurgic power ‐ power to “make oneself master and possessor of nature” conventional wisdom no longer placing man within nature, but face‐to‐face with it study of Homo faber and of material culture ‐ giving not only a richer but also a more exact idea of Homo sapiens and of culture as a whole against relativists, inclined to regard cultures as “incommensurable,” demonstrating that structural
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