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April 20, 2009 8

Essence, Existence, and the Dominance of Technology

By Matthew Lee Anderson in Technology

Andrew Feenberg, who specializes in the philosophy of technology, points out that the crucial difference between modern and pre-modern conceptions of technology.  He writes: “In the Greek view of things each techne includes a purpose and a meaning for the artifacts the production of which it guides.  Note that for the Greeks, technai show the [...]