The Foundations of Meta-Technics

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Traducción: Carl Mitcham

FIRST TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE

SECOND TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE

PREFACE TO THE SECOND SPANISH PUBLICATION

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I: PRINCIPLES
1. From Technics to Meta-technics
2. Variants of Meta-technics
3. Utensils and Instruments
4. Anthropomorphism, Anthropocentrism, and Geocentrism
5. Epigenesis of Meta-technics
6. Nootechny and Demiurgy

CHAPTER II: SPACE AND TIME
7. Optico?luminic Models of Space
8. Positions and Spatiality
9. Rationality and Trans-rationality
10. Optico-luminic Time
11. Time and Duration
12. Time and Consciousness
13. Time and Existence
14. Time and the Four-dimensional Continuum
15. Time and Meta-technics
16. The Meta-technical Construction of Time

CHAPTER III: EPISTEMOLOGY AND ONTOLOGY
17. Knowledge and Consciousness
18. Thinking and Meta-technics
19. Onto-logy and Meta-technics
19.A Optico-spatial Roots of the Notion of Being
19.B The Double Horizon of Nothingness
19.C Optico-luminic Sources of some Onto-logical Concepts
20. Sketch of a Meta-technical Onto-logy

CHAPTER IV: NATURE AND SUPER-NATURE
21. Innate Nature and its Optico-luminic Ordering
22. Meta-technical Super-Nature
23. The Natural Being of Humanity and Super-natural Teleonomy

CHAPTER V: META-TECHNICAL ANTHROPOGONY
24. Meaning and Magnitude of the Anthropogonic Project
25. Optico-luminic Language and Meta-technical Mathesis
26. Anthropocentric Ethics and the Trans?mutation of Values
27. Geocentric State and Galactic State
28. From Human to Trans-human God

NOTES

ERNESTO MAYZ VALLENILLA

NAME INDEX

ANALYTICAL INDEX

META-TECHNICAL HORIZONS
Advice to the reader
Anti-Technics and Love (1980)
Ecology and Meta-Technics (1997)
Higher Education: Perplexities and Challenges (1997)