Literary notes about technic (AI summary)
The term "technic" has been employed in literature with a range of nuanced meanings. In many philosophical contexts, especially within Kant’s Critique of Judgement, it refers to the purposeful, teleological aspects of nature and the distinction between natural purposiveness and mere mechanical phenomena ([1], [2], [3], [4], [5]). Contrastingly, in literature such as Joyce’s Ulysses, the term appears as an isolated expression that invites broader interpretive possibilities ([6]). Additionally, its usage extends into sociological discourse—as seen in discussions of race-assimilation techniques ([7])—and into Nietzsche’s polemical rhetoric, where it denotes a method of nihilism driven by pity ([8]).
- The reason that we cannot treat the concept of a Technic of nature dogmatically is the fact that a natural purpose is inexplicable 306 § 75.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant - This is Epicurus’s method of explanation, according to which the distinction between a Technic of nature and mere mechanism is altogether denied.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant - Of the union of the principle of the universal mechanism of matter with the teleological principle in the Technic of nature 326 Appendix.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant - The distinction between nature’s “Technic” or purposive operation, and nature’s Mechanism is fundamental for the explanation of natural law.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant - Technic of nature, in respect of the same product and its possibility, may stand under a common supreme principle of nature in particular laws.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant - Technic.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce - Principles of Americanism; essentials of Americanization; technic of race-assimilation.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - Schopenhauer was right in this: that by means of pity life is denied, and made worthy of denial —pity is the technic of nihilism.
— from The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
