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Telos tehnike i dokidanje distopijskog u filozofiji Ortege y Gasseta
Telos of Technology and the Elimination of the Dystopian in the Philosophy of Ortega y Gasset

Author(s): Marko Kos
Subject(s): Education, Metaphysics, Social Philosophy, Contemporary Philosophy
Published by: Hrvatsko Filozofsko Društvo
Keywords: José Ortega y Gasset; technology; dystopia; posthumanism;

Summary/Abstract: The article aims to examine the relationship of modern man to human body, with an emphasis on understanding of the purpose of human body as such, in José Ortega y Gasset’s work “Man the Technician” (1941). We shall examine the following questions: a) what impact has the postulation of dystopian future on our attitude towards technology, b) can we claim that modern man thinks of the human body as a machine, c) does the idea of the body as a machine represent a telos to the modern man? A philosophical discussion on the term techne will serve as the basis for discussing the issues of “What is man?” and “What will man become?” as it is understood in the philosophy of Ortega y Gasset.

  • Issue Year: 35/2015
  • Issue No: 04/140
  • Page Range: 673-685
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Croatian