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The Renaissance creates a clear-cut distinction between mechanical arts, which will come to be considered applied science by Bacon and Descartes, and fine arts. Dealing with the Renaissance approach to technology, this paper will focus,... more
The Renaissance creates a clear-cut distinction between mechanical arts, which will come to be considered applied science by Bacon and Descartes, and fine arts. Dealing with the Renaissance approach to technology, this paper will focus, on the one hand, on those domains that combine theoretical and practical skills in order to create artifacts or to transform materials, and, on the other hand, with authors who debate the status of technological practices and knowledge. Thus, we will look at the developments and arguments regarding mechanics, alchemy, natural magic, mining and metallurgy, and at authors such as Georgius Agricola, Paracelsus, Masilio Ficino, Nicholas of Cusa, and Galileo Galilei. The aim is to reconstruct the arguments regarding technology that challenged the established Scholastic-Aristotelian framework and made possible the Modern approaches.
In Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle divides human knowledge in three great domains: proper knowledge dealing with the necessary, practical wisdom dealing with good life and good actions, and techne dealing with making artificial things.... more
In Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle divides human knowledge in three great domains: proper knowledge dealing with the necessary, practical wisdom dealing with good life and good actions, and techne dealing with making artificial things. Aristotle discusses at large theoretical and practical philosophy and ascribes to each of these two domains a specific wisdom. In the case of techne he certainly does not conceive of the existence of a technological wisdom. Nevertheless, the prevalence of technology nowadays requires a deeper theoretical and practical involvement with technology, a technological wisdom, in order to answer its challenges. Carl Mitcham argued that technology can be analyzed on four great components: objects, knowledge, activity (further divided into making and using), and volition. Technological volition and activity are the focus of an ethical approach to technology. In order to argue for such an ethical approach, I will use the insights of Actor-Network Theory and postp...
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During 1658 and 1659, the young Transylvanian scholar Apáczai Csere János (1625-1659) involves in a polemic against Henricus Regius, by elaborating a disputatio (De mente humana) and a textbook of philosophy (Philosophia Naturalis),... more
During 1658 and 1659, the young Transylvanian scholar Apáczai Csere János (1625-1659) involves in a polemic against Henricus Regius, by elaborating a disputatio (De mente humana) and a textbook of philosophy (Philosophia Naturalis), concerning the problem of human mind. Although both Regius and Apáczai are Cartesians, especially in the domain of natural philosophy, their metaphysical views are in conflict. Focusing on the problem of life and the problem of mind-body interaction, this article shows that Apáczai Csere János develops a third path in Cartesian metaphysics, different from that of Descartes himself and that of Regius, his renegade disciple. The first part of the article presents the problem of life and mind-body interaction as developed by Descartes and Regius. The second part of the article focusses on the life of Apaczai and his unedited manuscript Philosophia Naturalis. In the third part, the article present Apaczai conception of life and soul and his answer to the problem of mind-body interaction.
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The ethics of technology deals with the moral grounds of creating and using devices and technological systems. This paper deals with the ethics of technology from the point of view of postphenomenology – by analysing multistability,... more
The ethics of technology deals with the moral grounds of creating and using devices and technological systems. This paper deals with the ethics of technology from the point of view of postphenomenology – by analysing multistability, mediation and technological intentionality – and of Wittgenstein’s fundamental grammar – by analysing technology as a rule-governed practice. Using these theoretical frameworks, this paper is able to offer a description of the way ethical values are embedded in technology and to present the foundation for a normative ethics of technology.
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Traducere de Robert Arnautu, revazuta si adnotata de Virgil Ciomos Psihanaliza este, inainte de toate, rodul transferului dintre Freud si elevii lui. Rostul discutiilor si al corespondentei lui Freud cu Fliess si Jung, cu Ferenczi si... more
Traducere de Robert Arnautu, revazuta si adnotata de Virgil Ciomos
Psihanaliza este, inainte de toate, rodul transferului dintre Freud si elevii lui. Rostul discutiilor si al corespondentei lui Freud cu Fliess si Jung, cu Ferenczi si Abraham, cu Lou Andreas-Salome si Groddeck n-a vizat instaurarea unui domeniu stiintific definitiv asigurat – acela al inconstientului. El urmareste o noua asezare umana, atenta la ceea ce inconstientul insusi face sa ne parvina in act. Autoarea demonstreaza cum anume, in cazul psihanalizei freudiene si lacaniene, obiectul coincide intotdeauna cu metoda si ca miza ei fundamentala rezida in disponibilitatea noastra pentru ceea ce ne depaseste si, adesea, ne contrariaza.
Psihanaliza este, inainte de toate, rodul transferului dintre Freud si elevii lui. Rostul discutiilor si al corespondentei lui Freud cu Fliess si Jung, cu Ferenczi si Abraham, cu Lou Andreas-Salome si Groddeck n-a vizat instaurarea unui domeniu stiintific definitiv asigurat – acela al inconstientului. El urmareste o noua asezare umana, atenta la ceea ce inconstientul insusi face sa ne parvina in act. Autoarea demonstreaza cum anume, in cazul psihanalizei freudiene si lacaniene, obiectul coincide intotdeauna cu metoda si ca miza ei fundamentala rezida in disponibilitatea noastra pentru ceea ce ne depaseste si, adesea, ne contrariaza.
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Descartes is not only a philosopher but he is also a technological designer. He is involved in the design and even the construction of various devices, from the machine that cuts lenses, described in Dioptrics, to an automaton referred to... more
Descartes is not only a philosopher but he is also a technological designer. He is involved in the design and even the construction of various devices, from the machine that cuts lenses, described in Dioptrics, to an automaton referred to in Cogitationes Privatae, a drainage system, a virginal, and the devices constructed with Villebressieu. Descartes works with craftsmen, offers theoretical and practical advice, and general considerations regarding the practice of constructing useful devices.
This book addresses the ‘technological issues’ of Bacon’s and Descartes’ work in order to supply, for the philosophers of technology, a more nuanced analysis of the philosophical positions that set the stage for modern technology and, for the scholars in Early Modern studies, a different reading both of their philosophies and their conceptual affinities.
This book addresses the ‘technological issues’ of Bacon’s and Descartes’ work in order to supply, for the philosophers of technology, a more nuanced analysis of the philosophical positions that set the stage for modern technology and, for the scholars in Early Modern studies, a different reading both of their philosophies and their conceptual affinities.