Researches On Rationality Of Technological Culture Meaning

This dissertation is intended to explore the disjuncture, dilemma and solution of meaning world against the wide background current technological crisis and culture disjuncture. It illustrates the technological culture and the horizons significance that the introduction of this concept has exerted on philosophy of technology. Focus of this paper falls on the pluralization and uncertainty of meaning displayed by people who are impacted by globalization, information trend and consumer culture in the environment of contemporary technological culture when the unity of human and fixed meaning disappeared.The dissertation starts with a systemic illustration of technological culture, What is the core utterance of constructing contemporary philosophy of technology, with rationality as the clue and theory of value as a criterion, it develops along a critical and integrated project, briefly analysis the current crisis of technological culture and points out that technological culture has contributed to the overall reconstruction of language. Consequently, the dissertation follows such a logical framework that making a rational retrospect of contemporary technology culture, putting forward the problem of technological culture's awakening. Then, the statement of reconstruction of rationality in meaning world is provided by a rational analysis of the existing way of technological culture and a rational probe into the meaning crisis of current technological culture. This statement represents itself as developing and reconstructing the one-dimension technological culture along the possible path of rationality and the path of improving human culture.The originality of the dissertation lies in three aspects:first, an overall retrospection on the rationality of technological culture is made so as to help the study on technological culture walk along the right track of human rationality and ensure to understand the connotation and essence of technological culture in a right way; second, an overall analysis is conducted on the existing form of technological culture in sense of rationality. Few precedents can be found in that case nationwide. It discloses the innate logical evolution rule of technological culture, which lays an ontology basis and objective content for understanding and mastering of the essence and significance of technological culture; third, the reconstruction of rationality in technological culture meaning is suggested with rationality as the basis of thought in face of the current technological cultural crisis. It realizes the rational returning of technological culture to avoid the misunderstanding of the real rational researches of the technological ctlture in order to really promote the overall development of human beings and society. In addition to, opening up a new path for rebuilding a new image of technological culture.The dissertation includes three main parts:introduction, body and conclusion. The structure is as follows:Introduction:pointing out that contemporary technology has formed a fate which human cannot get rid of, especially the turning to technology implicating contemporary technological culture has become the index of questionization of all questions. Thus, in technology-science initiatives, people should keep current thinking stances---expanding critical researches on technological culture, scrutinizing the inner meaning of technological culture and canvassing the source of meaning crisis.Chapter I The Rational Reflection of Contemporary Technological Culture Researches. With the awareness of the theoretical predicaments of contemporary technological philosophy, this chapter sees through technological culture in rational field, clarifies the question range in technological philosophical researches, and illustrates that this paper studies the inner meaning of technological culture in rational reflection. Since technology becomes the meta-language of philosophy, this paper puts forwards the notion of technological culture pattern, analyses a kind of cultural phenomenon from concealed to unconcealed-----technological culture, explains the reasons of cultural changes of technological philosophical researches to realize the destination of culture construction and salvation. Chapterâ…¡The Rational Analysis of Technological Culture Existing Form.Taking cultural criticism contained in the evolution of technology as a intrinsic logic clue,this chapter retrospects and evaluates the evolution of technological culture from pre-modern, moder to contemporary; centres on the cultural developmental trends of technological culture to analyse its manifestation, current features and consideration in aphasia; expounds the general relationship between technology and culture, points out that technology is the foundation of meaning world of human culture, it plays an important role in the development of human meaning world. People should search for meaning s in technology and retrospect technological culture in the meaning inquires.Chapterâ…¢The Rational Canvassing of the Meaning Crisis of the Technological Culture. This chapter centres on meaning crisis of technological culture and expounds the manifestation, sources of contemporary technological culture crisis, and further reveals that at any time meaning crisis displays itself as intrinsic core power, which is the right technological culture that plays an leading role in contemporary technological culture and the value power it contains. Surmounting the confrontation of technology and culture, this paper doesnot take technology as the start point and reference frame to position the real world, but confines it in the social technological structure to understand the contradiction in existence experience at the level of culture, and make a critical explanation of some theoretical problems of technological culture by referring to philosophy and culture in a rational thought context.Chapter IV The Rational Reconstructing of the Technological Culture meaing. Introspect over the meaning reconstruction of the technological culture in the cultural philosophy sense. Make an interpretation about the rational meaning reconstruction of technological culture in the following dimensions:the premise and basis of meaning reconstruction, the intrinsic need of meaning reconstruction, value choice of meaning reconstruction and petaphysics purport of meaning reconstruction. Study the intrinsic reason and manifestation of the conflict between technological culture and contemporary society and its coordinate system. Reveal the retrospective stance of technological culture-----realizing the rational returning of culture and self. Put forward the instrumental rationality striding over modern technology, which makes the society reconstruct and demand for changing, with the kernel of reconstructing human beings'meaning world. The change is also a process of culture reconstructing, which reconstructs the relations between human and nature, human and human, human and society by introspecting the value society of human beings. Be cautious of that the contexts of regional problems may be concealed by the other. Recontextulizing the western culture theory expands the cultural criticism of contemporary technological and reconstructs the humanism dimension.Conclusion:conflict of the trends of technological culture has become an explicit proposition. It can be resolved by taking rationality as the kernel factor to reconstruct to the point save technological culture. It can be explained in details as follows. First, the study on the rationality of technological culture helps guide people live in a true sense, second, the evolution of the existing ways of technological culture indicates not only the progress of itself, but its profound significance on the man and society; third, the rational reconstruction of technological culture meaning contributes to the possibility of integrating culture and technology so as to give better respond to the future development of current technological culture. It tries to apply the new enlightenment to achieve renewed understanding of technological critical theory and awake its critical potential in present context.