Foundations of meta-technics

Chapter 1 First Translator's Preface Chapter 2 Second Translator's Preface Chapter 3 The Foundations of Meta-Technics: Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla: Preface to the Second Spanish Publication; Preface to the First Edition; Introduction Chapter 4 Principles: From Technics to Meta-Technics; Variants of Meta-technics; Utensils and Instruments; Anthropomorphism, Anthropocentrism, and Geocentrism; Epigenesis of Meta-technics; Nootechny and Demiurgy Chapter 5 Space and Time: Optico-luminic Models of Space; Positions and Spatiality; Rationality and Trans-rationality; Optico-luminic Time; Time and Duration; Time and Consciousness; Time and Existence; Time and the Four-dimensional Continuum; Time and Meta- Chapter 6 Epistemology and Ontology: Knowledge and Consciousness; Thinking and Meta-technics; Onto-logy and Meta-technics; Optico-spatial Roots of the Notion of Being; The Double Horizon of Nothingness; Optico-luminic Sources of Some Onto-logical Concepts; Sk Chapter 7 Nature and Super-Nature: Innate Nature and its Optico-luminic Ordering; Meta-technical Super-Nature; The natural Being of Humanity and Super-natural Teleonomy Chapter 8 Meta-Technical Anthropogony: Meaning and Magnitude of the Anthropogonic Project; Optico-luminic Language and Meta-technical Mathesis; Anthropocentric Ethics and the Trans-mutation of Values; Geocentric State and Galactic State; From Human to Trans-h Chapter 9 Notes Chapter 10 Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla Chapter 11 Name Index Chapter 12 Analytical Index Chapter 13 Meta-Technical Horizons: Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla: Advice to the Reader; Anti-Technics and Love (1980); Ecology and Meta-Technics (1997); Higher Education: Perplexities and Challenges (1997)