Thursday, February 8, 2018

Humanist Technocracy and Medieval Theocracy

Humanist Technocracy is a Political system that combines Humanist and Technical principles.  The implication in it of Techne is three-fold: in the production of goods, in the organization of society, and as a focus of character-building.  The Humanist dimension entails the interests of both the Human species and its members, i. e. Humanist Technocracy avoids the dehumanization to which other varieties of Technocracy are susceptible, e. g. mechanistic organization, the promotion of destructive 'technology', etc.  Thus, Humanist Technocracy is antithetical to the predominant Medieval Theocracy in two ways.  First, its privileging of Techne, of which Experimental Reason is an essential phase, challenges the criminalization of it that is the root of the Theology of Salvation, i. e. the events described in Genesis 3.  Second, its promotion of the interests of the Human species is counter to a Salvation that detaches an individual immaterial Soul from an allegedly cursed Species.  Thus, Humanist Technocracy is a more radical departure from Medieval Theocracy than is an Atomist Political doctrine that preserves that detachment, e. g. the concept of Individual Right, even as it jettisons the premise of the existence of a deity.

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