Turning toward technology : a glimpse into the Asian paradigm / George Teschner and Alessandro Tomasi.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-190) and index.

Machine generated contents note: Paradigmatic Thinking -- The Technological Paradigm and the Turning -- Two Different Methodologies -- Turning Toward: The Asian Paradigm -- 1. The Western Technological Paradigm -- The Paradigmatic Critic -- Useful and Efficient Above All -- Nostalgia for a Lost Agency -- The Vanishing Telos -- A Technological Middle Path -- 2. Cook Ting Uses a Bladeless Knife -- Cook Ting's Knife -- The Simplicity of the Technological Mind -- The Use of the Useless -- The Technological Te -- Intimacy and Embodiment -- The Hinge of the Technological Way -- 3. Bow and Arrow without the Archer -- Arjuna's Technological Crisis -- The Karma Yoga of Technology -- Technological Action and Its Eternal Witness -- Sacrificial Action -- Agent-less Technology -- Lost the Archer: Found the Warrior -- 4. The Lucky Leader -- Political Fortuna -- The Rule of the Technocrat -- Confucianism: The Value of Natural Ease 124 Taoism: Walking without Touching the Ground -- The Lucky Natural Intimate Leader -- 5. Sunyata as Technological Intimacy -- The Standpoint of Sunyata -- The Epistemological Way -- The Ontological Way -- The Mystical Way -- Technological Power.