“Physical engagement is not simply physical contact but the experience of the world through the manifold sensibility of the body. That sensibility is sharpened and strengthened in skill. Skill is intensive and refined world engagement. Skill, in turn, is bound up with social engagement. It molds the person and gives the person character.”
Quote by Albert Borgmann
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Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life: A Philosophical Inquiry
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Albert Borgmann
Albert Borgmann is a German-American philosopher born in 1937. His research focuses on the philosophy of technology, aesthetics, and ethics. Borgmann's work explores the relationship between technology and human life, and how technology affects our perception and values. more
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