TY - JOUR T1 - Materialism is NOT a Mechanistic World View A1 - Cruse, Don JA - Elem. d. Naturw. JF - Elemente der Naturwissenschaft PY - 2000 VL - 73 SP - 75 EP - 80 DO - 10.18756/edn.73.75 SN - p-ISSN 0422-9630 LA - en N2 -

«The machine image objectivizes at a stroke whatever it touches by emphasizing its inherent otherness from man, its non-communicability. In the magical world-view of the Old Gnosis, all things - animal, plant, mineral - radiate meanings; they are intelligible beings - or the natural faces such beings put on for us in the physical world. But for Newton, the celestial spheres comprise a machine; for Descartes animals become machines; for Hobbes, society is a machine; for La Mettrie, the human body is a machine; eventually for Pavlov and Watson, human behaviour is machine like. So steadily, the natural world dies as it hardens into mechanistic imagery.» [...]
 

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«The machine image objectivizes at a stroke whatever it touches by emphasizing its inherent otherness from man, its non-communicability. In the magical world-view of the Old Gnosis, all things - animal, plant, mineral - radiate meanings; they are intelligible beings - or the natural faces such beings put on for us in the physical world. But for Newton, the celestial spheres comprise a machine; for Descartes animals become machines; for Hobbes, society is a machine; for La Mettrie, the human body is a machine; eventually for Pavlov and Watson, human behaviour is machine like. So steadily, the natural world dies as it hardens into mechanistic imagery.» [...]
 

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«The machine image objectivizes at a stroke whatever it touches by emphasizing its inherent otherness from man, its non-communicability. In the magical world-view of the Old Gnosis, all things - animal, plant, mineral - radiate meanings; they are intelligible beings - or the natural faces such beings put on for us in the physical world. But for Newton, the celestial spheres comprise a machine; for Descartes animals become machines; for Hobbes, society is a machine; for La Mettrie, the human body is a machine; eventually for Pavlov and Watson, human behaviour is machine like. So steadily, the natural world dies as it hardens into mechanistic imagery.» [...]
 

ST - Materialism is NOT a Mechanistic World View UR - https://dx.doi.org/10.18756/edn.73.75 Y2 - 2024-03-29 11:00:09 ER -