STS200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Logical Positivism, Technoscience, Luddite
1 Mar 2018
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Mid-term material ends at horizontal line (i provide no one-liner summaries for the material under i of the lecture outline) A. mythical explanation does not tend towards material mastery of the world. C. writing both aimed to control people and, as logocentric, dismisses myth as a false world-picture. Scientific" (logo-theoretical) explanation might tend toward intellectual world-mastery. Agriculture tends to conceptualise (wild) nature as chaotic and evil. Combining agriculture with logos may create a rationale for material mastery of the world. A. greek associations of slavery with techn (art) reinforced their exclusive interest in theory. Roman preoccupation with maintaining political power reinforced their neglect of theory. The medieval synthesis attempted to reconcile myth ( religion ) and theory ( science ) And yet perpetuated the gap between theory (higher class, closer to the divine) and techn (lower class, closer to nature).
