🔒 Technology and Nihilism: The Net of Hephaestus part 2

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Here I conclude my discussion on the teaching of technology in Homer with my completion of the song that brings a mysterious great joy to Odysseus. At issue is the status of mind in relation to the correction of inadequacies of the body. From this emerges a teaching of comedy in relation to tragedy regarding the role of technology in the competing claims of natural rights and how they are to be understood in terms of law.