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Loading And Examining Of Technological Value

Posted on:2005-07-30Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:R S YanFull Text:PDF
GTID:2156360122986520Subject:Philosophy of science and technology
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In the time of little science, technology has only been thought as a tool or means, it is unconcerned with value; Nowadays, science and technology has became a large system of organization of society, science, technology, or society influence and penetrate each other, as a result, modern technology is given deep connotation of value. Any technology loads some social politics, economy, or culture value, embodies human being's seek. The thesis inquire into in detail peculiarity of value of technology, examine and introspect overally the politics, economy, culture, or ethics value. The thesis is expected to realize unification of theory and practice.The economy value of technology implies that technology has became the first factor to promote economy be the means of function of productive forces, yet, modern technology leads to pollution of the environment and ecological disturbance when it acts as a catalysis in the course of economical construction. Facing to the disturbed earth, people attach importance gradually to the environmental ethics which expresses a existence consciousness from life's needs of mankind.The politics value of technology implies that modern technology has became a new ideology instead of traditional religion and mythology, has obtained political substance, and has political meanings. Technology can inflect, effect, and transform actual politics situation of society as a political phenomenon; but society politics contains the tendency of anti-democracy in the some degree when it is given the excessive technological color; In addition, military affairs technology has been one of the largest threaten for the peace and safety of the world, which gives service to the politics.The culture value of technology will provide the substance support and motive force of the development of culture. Technology culture is only a important part of the all social culture, yet it leads to the break of culture because of the excessive development. Besides, thediversity of technological culture lead unavoidably to interflow each other between different cultures, the phenomenon often happens that some technology is praised highly, whereas, others are denied. It don't benefit to the development of the all mankind's civilization.The ethics value of technology implies that development of modern technology embodies a pursuit for traditional ethics of truth, good, and beauty, but some new high technologies, for example, life technology and information technology, give strong challenges to traditional ethics, even cause it go to dead. Ethical questions have became a bottleneck to restrict the developments of some high technology.Base on the above-mentioned theory, the paper make penetrating analysis that western countries and China should have different attitude toward the negative value of technology in the last chapter by comparision. China is struggling for the realization of modernization now , thereof, our country shouldn't criticize drastically the negative value of technology, but develop vigorously science and technology to rejuvenate China.Though the thesis expound overally the positive and negative values, it's true purpose lies in the profound introspection for the negative values of technology. In a speaking, the paper is full of a grey suffering consciousness and positive introspecting spirit.
Keywords/Search Tags:loading of technological value, the politics value of technology, the economy value of technology, the culture value of technology, the ethics value of technology, introspecting about the negative value of technology
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