Downgrading the world to a mere *human* world
Karl Löwith’s ideas sound so much like Nakahira’s. Check out these quotes (glosses in an article by Flavia Baldari):
In his discussion of the idea of progress, Löwith focuses his criticism on the modern scientific spirit and the anthropocentric standpoint that consid- ers the world an object for humans to manipulate for their own profit. 118
Löwith affirms that our way of being in the world is, in reality, just one more aspect of the world-human relationship. Modern science with its thirst for invention, progress, and advancement concentrates its efforts only on the practical utility of nature, downgrading the world to a mere human world. 120