Homo Faber and Exhilaration

The originality of Spinoza's vision is not that of a new way of looking at the same thing, e. g. a Pantheistic vision of the world.  It is a vision of the beginning of a new era in human history, characterized by a transition from Homo Sapiens to Homo Faber, and correspondingly, by the supplanting of Theoretical Reason by Technical Reason.  In the Pantheistic context, Homo Faber is transformed from an original sinner to a Mode of a creative deity, i. e. of the deity of Genesis 1, as opposed to the deity of Genesis 3.  The ascendance of Technical Reason also applies to Instrumental Reason--Reason does not merely function as a slave of the passions by calculating Means to its Ends, it becomes creative, the autonomy of which becomes salient when construction is for its own sake--in Art.  Because Kant ignores the role of Technical Reason even in a purposive context, e. g. a labor-saving invention, he cannot recognize the Pleasure of it--Exhilaration--that is communicated in Genius Art.  But he is far from alone; centuries later, the subject of most Philosophy is still Homo Sapiens.