A PROLOGUE TO MILTON SANTOS’ PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNIQUES

Abstract

The presented work approaches the Philosophy of Techniques from the Brazilian thinker Milton Santos. We have two main objectives: (1) to show the philosophic pertinence of the Miltonian thinking, and (2) to make an introduction to the theme. In order to carry them out, we divided the article in seven sections. The first six sections prepare to the last one, which appropriately gives attention to the above-mentioned thematic. The first section exposes considerations concerning M. Santos’ proposal of a “revolutionary” and “sectoral epistemology” to Geography; the second, the Miltonian concern in being true to life; the third, the idea that reality imposes itself to the scientific theories, having nature as a paradigm; the fourth, the question concerning the eternity or not of scientific truths; the fifth, the total space, which imposes itself as a certainty of the current globalization phase; the sixth, the continuous-discontinuous time from the Miltonian epistemology; finally, the seventh and last section unassumingly exposes the Philosophy of Techniques of the Bahian geographer-philosopher Milton Santos. It is to this section that the entire article flows, since we relate the last section to the others.