On The Ethics Of Responsibility In The Contemporary Technology

Since the mid of the 20th century, the human has entered a new intersection, unlimited exploitation of natural resources, science and technology, led to the sharp deterioration of the human survival environment , endangers the entire humanity .Regardless of the scale, target, consequence of such tremendous changes have taken place in the contemporary technology. It changes the person and nature relationships, transforms the human own intrinsic structure, and makes human become the object of technology. Facing all sorts of new changes in the technological age, the standard ethics, which is traditional and established on the basis of individual ethics certainly cannot be freely supposed to ethics question which appears in the modern science and the technical activities. On the one hand, the role which can play in the contemporary technology extremely is personally limited, and the main responsibility has already shifted;On the other hand, due to the potential and unpredictable consequences of technical activities, many technical issues be still indecisive in the present stage. In other words, the contemporary technology ethics issues already broke through the category on objective which itself as well as traditional individual ethics can be solved. History needs a new technology ethics, which can let human get rid of the conflict of the present value. Responsibility ethics is born in such background, takes on the historical responsibility on own initiative, and establishes the new ethic latitude for this time.From Hans Lenk firstly detailed elaboration of the concept such as the type, nature and form of the ethical of responsibility, it has undertaken the annotation of this era. What is more, another important figure-Hans Jonas proposed, the significance of responsibility ethics, to the important program to this time. Responsibility ethics provide the new ethics latitude to the present age. This article takes the responsibility ethics as a platform, mainly rests on the Hans John's responsibility ethics to study on the reflection and solution of the technological age under the ethics of responsibility. At the same time, this article unifies sustainable development view in our country condition, indicates the direction to the sustainable development under the Chinese ethics and cultural context.