![]() , I suggest that if we were now to try to place limits upon, constrain or confine technology or if we were to try to return to a more ancient way of making and living with technical products, then we would also have to recapture or renew our lost connection with the tragic.Īltogether, this essay presents a third way to understand the difference betweenĪnd technology outside of the usual "quantitative" and "qualitative" analyses. Second, in reaction to Heidegger's appeal to recapture the original essence of For the ancients, there is necessarily a tragic sense to all technical knowledge. However, I also show that, quite unlike current conceptions of technology, the ancients recognize things such as disease, natural disaster, and the wrath of the gods as limitations on complete technical control or the unrestrained application of , I show that the idea of complete technical control that we might only associate with contemporary technology is available in ancient conceptions of First, through an analysis of Thucydides' This paper is an attempt to highlight some of the similarities and differences between ancientĪnd contemporary technology within the context of tragedy. ![]()
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