Nikolai Berdyaev · 1933
Man and Machine
- Original title
- Человек и машина
- Language
- Russian
- Form
- Periodical
- Text
- Full text
- English
- No English translation · No public-domain English translation; English translation in Technology and Language (2023)
- Selected
- Ben Breen, 2026-09-29; suggested by Claude research agents, 29 Sep 2026
- Status
- Arguments unverified; quotations chosen by machine, unchecked
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Can reliance on machinery become a form of idolatry?Yes. technology usurps man's spiritual place. Berdyaev describes faith in technics as the remaining strong faith of modern civilized humanity, whose attachment to it may change humanity’s own image.
В век маловерия, в век ослабления не только старой религиозной веры, но и гуманистической веры XIX века единственной сильной верой современного цивилизованного человека остается вера в технику, в ее мощь и ее бесконечное развитие. Техника есть последняя любовь человека, и он готов изменить свой образ под влиянием предмета своей любви.
In an age of little faith, an age in which not only the old religious faith but also the humanist faith of the nineteenth century has weakened, the one strong faith left to modern civilised man is faith in technics, in its power and its endless development. Technics is man's last love, and he is ready to change his image under the influence of the object of his love.
OCR correctedmachine translation
Web search: published in the émigré journal Put' (Paris), 1933; soctech.spbstu.ru English translation page.