STS200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Auguste Comte, Welcome To The Machine, Techne
22 Mar 2016
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Sts 200 lecture 15- march 3 rd 2016. Machines became the primary model for explaining the universe even though newtonian physics made recourse to feelings . Bacon: use systemaic method to unite technique and science scieniic power as a neverending progressive revolt against the natural. Mechanisic worldview: newton is blamed for this view. Newton"s physics book (the principia) frames the world in which everyone today in the world has been brought up. Newtonian mechanics are wide- reaching and taken for granted. Newton"s physics are a form of culture; if we don"t realize where it comes from, we"d need to have an anthropologist explain it to us, making us into whoever the culture wants us to be. To have freedom, we must understand where this culture came from: machines: devices for applying power. Thus a baconian principle: etymology: machen is german for to make or to have power , or to be able .
