Technology and the Spirit (review)

In his introduction to Technology and the Spirit, Ignacio Götz makes it quite clear that he does not want to create a carefully articulated philosophical system, or to uphold a particular religious outlook. Rather, he seeks to enable a philosophical project, that of "finding a way to integrate technology into our spiritual lives" (p. xv). Götz asserts that "Spirit comes first" (p. xiii) and that spirituality—defined as openness to the transcendent—is as indispensable to human life as breathing. The properly attentive human will experience the physical world as real, but also will experience the world, including the world made by human techne, as a sacrament of the grandeur of Being, of God. In eight loosely linked essays, Götz elaborates this claim as to the sacramentality of technology utilizing myriad insights from Greek philosophers, Western and Indian religious traditions, Nietzsche, anthroposophy, and, by no means least, Heidegger

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