Constructivism

The label 'Constructivism' would seem to be a suitable name for the Philosophical study of Homo Faber, and such usage would seemingly be consistent with applications already in effect. These are to doctrines in specialized fields, probably the most prominent of which are Epistemology and the Philosophy of Mathematics. Both of these assert that their objects, of Cognition and of Mathematics, are the products of processes that are genetically defined, and both their founders, Piaget and Brouwer, are explicitly neo-Kantian. Hence, they tend to support the thesis that Kantianism itself is Constructivistic. But, while a Constructivistic interpretation of Kantianism does demonstrate that Kant conceives of Humanity as Homo Faber, it lacks the historical dimension, unlike e. g. Marxism, in which the transition from Homo Sapiens to Homo Faber becomes an explicit theme. In contrast, Evolvementalism, with the resources lacking in traditional Evolutionism, proposes that such a transition marks an Evolvement of the species, in which the emergence of the Idionomic Individual is a crucial stage. At an earlier phase, the Individual is a Particular, a creature who passively instantiates the Universal, via its mimesis of the given world, with its facility in its specifically mental mirroring of the world earning it the distinction 'Sapiens'. But, as the Particular matures, it begins to put its knowledge to practice, and begins to make its own world, or, in other words, Homo Sapiens becomes Homo Faber. So, while Constructivism may be a useful and limitedly accurate characterization of what Humanity has grown into in recent centuries, as an a-historical theory, it lacks the genetic dimension that it requires of its own definitions, and it cannot explain that growth itself.