The natural sciences rest on 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, 604
Categorization
- DEEPTHINKING: A 1930 claim that natural science is downstream of a will-to-cultivate, which is essentially the technical knowledge interest before Habermas named it.
- XREF: connects to: Freyer grounded natural science’s attitude in a primary technological will to cultivate the earth. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2436; A society’s project of mastering nature becomes exclusive and totalizing once institutionalized. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 99; America imagined technology could restore an Edenic state by blending nature and industry — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 474 (+10 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Freyer grounded natural science’s attitude in a primary technological will to cultivate the earth. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2436; A society’s project of mastering nature becomes exclusive and totalizing once institutionalized. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 99; America imagined technology could restore an Edenic state by blending nature and industry — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 474 (+10 more)
Broader Connections
- Freyer grounded natural science’s attitude in a primary technological will to cultivate the earth.
#expands(0.98) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2436 - Science became an autonomous value detached from its survival origins
#complicates(0.79) — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 2032 - Nature-copied invention forms the mythic root of Native science and technology
#complicates(0.77) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 758