The Technology’s Persue Under The Field Of People’s Free And Comprehensive Development

Marx’s thought on technologic philosophy is the important foundation andtheoretical resource of Marxist philosophy. It differs from any previous andcontemporary philosophers. Marx’s thinking horizon of modern technology hasworld-historic significance. In other words, Marx’s thought on modern technologyunfolds under the vision of human’s comprehensive and free development whichauthentically leads us into the technology of the past, present and future.The first thing that appeared in front of Marx’s modern technology was themanufacturing process of machine industry. As for the fact of machine manufacture,firstly, the historic essence of modern technology should be questioned. It shows thatMarx’s thought on essence of modern technology is different from both intuitivematerialism and historical idealism. It is a kind of thought of human’s essence and alsocomprehensive and free development on the basis of real unity of historicalconsciousness and materialism. It not only needs to find the connection betweenproduction of machine industry and human’s essence, history and liberation, but alsoneeds to insight into the historical dimension of manufacturing process of machineindustry. Then establish the historical materialism about modern technology. With thehistorical development of the machine industry, Marx felt the increasing importance ofnatural science in its development. In fact, the history of modern technology is ahistory of natural science. During the process of interaction between man and nature,modern technology is an important intermediary which connects modern technologyand natural science. Because of the participation of natural science, the manufacturingprocess of machine industry becomes a scientific production process. Therefore itdeserves to further question the natural foundation of modern technology and clear therelationship between modern technology and natural science. Find out how to achieve the human’s comprehensive and free development in natural science of moderntechnology. Thus the nature of natural science of modern technology could becomprehensively understood. From a more fundamental sense, the manufacturingprocess of modern machine industry is the manufacturing process of capitalism. It isalso a deeper inquiry of technology under the social rules from the perspective of theapplication of capitalism of the machine regarding to the machine production. At thesame time, Marx saw the tremendous power of modern technology in the form ofcapitalist alienation of modern technology. It can be more clearly and deeply to graspthe uniqueness and profoundity of Marx’s philosophical thought of science andtechnology from the primary anatomy and systematic anatomy to the capitalisticsociety, and then to grasp the entire ideological system of Marx’s science andtechnology philosophy throughout the vast and profound historical sphere of historicalmaterialism.Therefore, only under the vision of human’s comprehensive and free development,can the author digs into the historical nature of modern technology. The author cangrasp the historic development process of modern technology and realize its historicpractical significance. The historic development of modern technology is the practicalmethod to achieve human’s comprehensive and free development. This method formsthrough the alienation of modern technology and the sublating process of alienation.Capitalistic application of modern technology makes human suffer from slavery andexploitation, but it offers the possibility of human’s comprehensive and freedevelopment. Though the development of modern technology of capitalism fulfills thecapitalists’ desire to extract the surplus value, it makes it possible for workers totransform from partial to comprehensive. In fact, as long as we live in the time ofmachine industry ruled by capitalism, as long as we need to continue having an insightinto the historic nature of our social existence, as long as we dig into the historic natureof modern technology after the previous insight to reveal the historic state of existenceof human’s comprehensive and free development, it is not and will never be outmodedto question the technology. Therefore, it is a permanent power to question the modern technology under the vision of human’s comprehensive and free development. It willalways motivate the author to restart the “technical inquiry” on the path of historicdevelopment of human self-liberation.