STS200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Anthropocentrism, Technoscience, Plough
23 Feb 2016
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Sts 200 lecture 12- february 11 th 2016. Read mumford (14) and smith( 15) for tuesday after reading week. Bacon proposed the systematic unification of theory and ntechnique as the best route for humans to regain cosmic superiority. He"s frustrated that it"s taking so long for science to take hold. St francis wants to take care of the poor, but you need to exploit nature to do so. So to take care of the bottom of the pyramid, you need to exploit even lower on the pyramid. There"s a fine line between exploiting the lower levels on the pyramid, and raising technology to the level of godhood. 7. essentialism vs nominalism: contemporary debate of status of a species/biological kind: anthropocentrism and environmental crisis ( white) 1. mouldboard plough: chinese technology brought to europe, treated as a marvel. The ploughmaster comes to the realization that he is the master of nature. You"re cutting the land open by ploughing it.
