Light and Shadow of the Iron Civilization and its Future Philosophical Reflection from the Perspective of Eco-ethica

摘要

In the history of materials, the iron civilization was the symbol of human techical development. But in the 20th Century iron as material is transfigured itself to the supporances of technological conjuncture, or technological cohesion as its core. One characteristic figure of iron has become multi-transfigured material into various kinds of things or machines temporally changed and finall backwards to raw material. The author discuss about: 1) eco-ethica in the 21st century 2) time-problem of transfiguration 3) shadow of iron production 4) meta-technica and its problem Finally the author point out the importance of negativity in the domain of meta-technica.