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The Greek philosopher Anaxagoras’ dictum ‘Man as the measure of all things’ is a viewpoint of the same order as of Le Corbusier who defined a house as the machine to live in. A viewpoint is catchall for a host of ideas that must hang comfortably from the time and place. Thus Anaxagoras viewed the order of the world with man holding the central role. Humanism naturally took its power from such an idea just as the technological explosion of the 20th century would impress the celebrated French architect to think of house in terms of a machine.
Perhaps given another millennium one might define man as a robot dreaming he could go back into the womb of time. For the rest living in interstellar colonies it might not seem odd at all. Who can tell?
benny