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The Age of the World Picture - Coggle Diagram
The Age of the World Picture
Phenomena of Modernity
Aesthetics
Art becomes about aesthetics, reflecting human experiences rather than creating something new.
Culture
Culture focuses on "man's highest good" which then becomes the politics of culture (57).
Machine Technology
Technology has become mathematical, meaning that its mechanisms are already known and it exists within a "closed system of spatio-temporally related units of mass" (60).
Science
Science becomes research, necessitating procedure and specialization over wisdom and inquiry.
Loss of the Gods
"The gods have fled" (58). In modernity, religious experience becomes the only way to access God or the gods, making it so that all other aspects of life are perceived as being void of divinity.
Research
According to Heidegger, modern science assumes that all things in nature exist within a "closed system of spatio-temporally related units of mass" (60).
This implies that all things within this system are knowable and, with adequate investigation, could be discovered and mastered via research and increasing specialization, the goal of which is the have science represented back to humanity.
In this modern age, science becomes the object which is represented, and humanity becomes the subjected to which science is represented.
Humanity becomes the arbiter of reality and truth.
Out of this, the World Picture is created, wherein humans get to decide what does and does not fit inside the picture.
The technologist replaces the scholar.
Due to the assumptions made in the world confined as a "closed system of spatio-temporally related units of mass" (60), there is not room for academic inquiry that falls outside of the procedural research demanded by the science of modernity.
Thus, the technologist take the place of the scholar, so that he can calculate, master, and control all aspects of the universe.