homo faber

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The human being viewed as a tool maker and user, or having evolutionarily reached the stage of tool use. uncountable
    — Man working and fabricating and building a world inhabited only by himself would still be a fabricator, though not homo faber: he would have lost his specifically human quality and, rather, be a god—not, to be sure, the Creator, but a divine demiurge as Plato described him in one of his myths.

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Homo Faber alternative

词源

Borrowed from Latin homō faber (“man the maker”, literally “ingenious man”).
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