Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Techne, Anthropomorphism, Praxis

Spinoza is among those who recognize Geocentrism as fundamentally Anthropocentrism.  Kant goes further, discerning Anthropocentrism as inadequately conceived Anthropomorphism, i. e. what appears to be one's perception of oneself as inhabiting the center of one's World is actually an adaptation of the World to the structures of one's Perception.  Accordingly, the perception of Causality is actually an adaptation of perceived phenomena to a human Cognitive structure, i. e. to a Cause-Effect a priori formation.  Now, he eventually establishes the primacy of Praxis over Theory.  However, he stops short of applying that further insight to Cognition.  He thus stops short of recognizing the adaptation of phenomena to a Causal structure as that of a manifold to a Practical Causal structure, i. e. to a deliberate producing of an Effect.  But the deliberate producing of an Effect, i. e. knowingly doing A in order for B to ensue, is Techne.  Hence, insofar as Science is a system of Causal relations, it is a projection of Techne on phenomena, e. g. an apple falling to the ground is interpreted as the Earth pulling the apple towards it.

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