The Foundations Of Meta-technics

by Vallenilla, Ernesto Mayz; Mitcham, Carl

• ISBN13: 9780761829058
• ISBN10: 0761829059
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-05-19
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

The Foundations of Meta-Technics is a rigorous phenomenological analysis of the transcendence of anthropomorphic, anthropocentric, and geocentric technology in terms of the new meta-technical forms of space and time. The book draws out the epistemological and ontological implications of an emerging meta-technical supernature in which space and time are perceived by trans-human means and from trans-terrestrial perspectives. This book is especially valuable to philosophers in either the phenomenological or continental tradition.

Author Biography

Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla is the Founder and was First Rector of the Simon Bolivar University in Caracas from 1969-1979. He was Professor of Philosophy and Director of the School of Philosophy at the Central University of Venezuela.

Table of Contents

First Translator's Preface	vii
Second Translator's Preface	ix
Preface to the Second Spanish Publication	xv
Preface to the First Edition	xvii
Introduction	xix
THE FOUNDATIONS OF META-TECHNICS
Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla
Principles
From Technics to Meta-technics	1	(1)
Variants of Meta-technics	2	(2)
Utensils and Instruments	4	(2)
Anthropomorphism, Anthropocentrism, and Geocentrism	6	(3)
Epigenesis of Meta-technics	9	(4)
Nootechny and Demiurgy	13	(4)
Space and Time
Optico-luminic Models of Space	17	(7)
Positions and Spatiality	24	(6)
Rationality and Trans-rationality	30	(4)
Optico-luminic Time	34	(4)
Time and Duration	38	(2)
Time and Consciousness	40	(3)
Time and Existence	43	(6)
Time and the Four-dimensional Continuum	49	(4)
Time and Meta-technics	53	(3)
The Meta-technical Construction of Time	56	(9)
Epistemology and Ontology
Knowledge and Consciousness	65	(4)
Thinking and Meta-technics	69	(7)
Onto-logy and Meta-technics	76	(1)
Optico-spatial Roots of the Notion of Being	77	(9)
The Double Horizon of Nothingness	86	(3)
Optico-luminic Sources of some Onto-logical Concepts	89	(1)
Sketch of a Meta-technical Onto-logy	90	(3)
Nature and Super-Nature
Innate Nature and its Optico-luminic Ordering	93	(2)
Meta-technical Super-Nature	95	(3)
The Natural Being of Humanity and Super-natural Teleonomy	98	(5)
Meta-Technical Anthropogony
Meaning and Magnitude of the Anthropogonic Project	103	(2)
Optico-luminic Language and Meta-technical Mathesis	105	(3)
Anthropocentric Ethics and the Trans-mutation of Values	108	(8)
Geocentric State and Galactic State	116	(9)
From Human to Trans-human God	125	(4)
Notes	129	(6)
Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla	135	(2)
Name Index	137	(2)
Analytical Index	139	(22)
META-TECHNICAL HORIZONS
Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla
Advice to the Reader	161	(2)
Anti-Technics and Love (1980)	163	(10)
Ecology and Meta-Technics (1997)	173	(8)
Higher Education: Perplexities and Challenges (1997)	181