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Meta-Technics as the Philosophical Expression of the New World

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Philosophy of Latin America

Part of the book series: Contemporary philosophy ((COPH,volume 8))

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To the extent that it is possible to make a forecast without falling into a naïve prophesizing, the present and future of humanity depend on the development of technics. But technical work — as it shows itself today, namely as an activity aimed at the mastery of otherness in general — does not have in our day an unequivocal meaning, or a single and exclusive functioning mode, unanimously accepted by all.

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Vallenilla, E.M. (2003). Meta-Technics as the Philosophical Expression of the New World. In: Fløistad, G. (eds) Philosophy of Latin America. Contemporary philosophy, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3651-0_14

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