Foundations of Meta-Technics

Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla was the Founding Rector of the Simón Bolívar University in Caracas (1969-1979), and was Professor of Philosophy and Director of the School of Philosophy at the Central University of Venezuela. Mayz Vallenilla holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Central University of Venezuela. He also studied at Göttingen, Freiburg, and Munich.Carl Mitcham is Professor of Liberal Arts and International Studies at the Colorado School of Mines. Mitcham holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Fordham University.

• Chapter 1 First Translator's PrefaceChapter 2 Second Translator's PrefaceChapter 3 The Foundations of Meta-Technics: Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla: Preface to the Second Spanish Publication; Preface to the First Edition; IntroductionChapter 4 Principles: From Technics to Meta-Technics; Variants of Meta-technics; Utensils and Instruments; Anthropomorphism, Anthropocentrism, and Geocentrism; Epigenesis of Meta-technics; Nootechny and DemiurgyChapter 5 Space and Time: Optico-luminic Models of Space; Positions and Spatiality; Rationality and Trans-rationality; Optico-luminic Time; Time and Duration; Time and Consciousness; Time and Existence; Time and the Four-dimensional Continuum; Time and Meta-Chapter 6 Epistemology and Ontology: Knowledge and Consciousness; Thinking and Meta-technics; Onto-logy and Meta-technics; Optico-spatial Roots of the Notion of Being; The Double Horizon of Nothingness; Optico-luminic Sources of Some Onto-logical Concepts; SkChapter 7 Nature and Super-Nature: Innate Nature and its Optico-luminic Ordering; Meta-technical Super-Nature; The natural Being of Humanity and Super-natural TeleonomyChapter 8 Meta-Technical Anthropogony: Meaning and Magnitude of the Anthropogonic Project; Optico-luminic Language and Meta-technical Mathesis; Anthropocentric Ethics and the Trans-mutation of Values; Geocentric State and Galactic State; From Human to Trans-hChapter 9 NotesChapter 10 Ernesto Mayz VallenillaChapter 11 Name IndexChapter 12 Analytical IndexChapter 13 Meta-Technical Horizons: Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla: Advice to the Reader; Anti-Technics and Love (1980); Ecology and Meta-Technics (1997); Higher Education: Perplexities and Challenges (1997)