Jeffrey Post

Modern Technolgy: the Separation of Arts and Sciences Jeffrey Post

Technology is created, developed, and modified for the purpose of efficiency in production. The progress of a culture is measured in terms of the techniques developed and used by that culture. While technology advances, social problems and economic inequality remain stagnate or worsen in our advanced" society and time. This book is a reaction to the historical shift toward the modern virtues of production and efficiency that has led to the separation of arts and sciences resulting in a perversion of values and priorities. My analysis begins with the Greeks runs though the Medieval period the Industrial Revolution and ends with the difficulties of modernity. A recovery of the principles of the Aristotelian teleology in addition to solutions proposed by contemporary philosophers such as Albert Borgmann and Carl Mitcham are proposed in order to alleviate the rupture and reverse the perversion of values. "