homo faber

Japanese: homo faber(英語表記)homofaber
homo faber

...Then, in the 19th century, people lost sight of the Christian God and the Greek sense of "harmony." This led to the development of the view of humanity known as "homo faber." The "homo faber" is a man who makes tools, and what it means is that each individual human being should be independent of the natural and human worlds, objectify them, and confront them technologically and engineering-wise, following their laws, remodeling, reorganizing, and remaking this world into something desirable for humans.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "homo faber" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…そして19世紀にキリスト教の神を見失い,ギリシア的〈調和(ハルモニア)〉の感覚を見失ったのであった。ここに成立したのが〈工作的人間(ホモ・ファベルhomo faber)〉という人間観である。〈工作的人間〉とは,道具を作る人間ということであるが,その意味するところは,個々の人間が自然界,人間界から自立して,自然界,人間界に対して,それを対象化し,その理法に従い,技術的工学的に立ち向かい,この世界を人間にとって望ましいものに改造し再編成し作り変えるべきである,と考える人間観である。…

※「homo faber」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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