Freyer grounded natural science’s attitude in a primary technological will to cultivate the earth.

Evidence

[Man] wants to live on the earth, he wants to cultivate it, i.e. to include it among human creations. The epistemic attitude of the natural sciences is unimaginable without this quite primary fact of the willthe technological will, taken in the broadest sense. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2436

Categorization

• DEFINE: Captures the first of Freyer’s three epistemic attitudes: natural science as expression of the technological will in its broadest sense.
• XREF: connects to: Freyer grounded scientific status in three distinct epistemic attitudes. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2435

Broader Connections

• Freyer grounded scientific status in three distinct epistemic attitudes. #expands (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2435