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On The Technological Beauty And Gleeful Design Of Technological Products

Posted on:2005-11-30Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:R X ZhuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2156360122998387Subject:Philosophy of science and technology
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Rationality of technology is a kind of cultural concept with the fact that modern science and technology has been playing more and more important role in human's life ever since western industrial revolution took place, it looks priority of the human's material requirements as the premise of person's activities. Rationality of technology has its great positive value, it has been promoting the development of modern science and technology and social progress and also creating great material wealth for the human beings. But it also has its negative effect, it has made the environment destroyed and made the person neglect the pursuit of the spiritual life and molded the person to the robot which only pursues material enjoyment .The negative effect of rationality of technology on the human beings is not caused by technology and rationality of technology themselves, it is the result of human beings thinking for mankind and the result of flooding and inflating caused by rationality of technology.The overall development of mankind is a great pursuit of human being, it decides that human beings must make practice according to the rules which has benefits to realizing the overall development of the mankind. The realization of the overall development of mankind is based on the harmony of the person's three relationships, they are, the harmony between human being and society, the harmony between human beings and nature, the harmony between human beings' material life and spiritual life. Now flooding and inflating of rationality of technology will make three relationships relatively imbalanced, especially the human beings' lopsided pursuit of matter utility make the person's material life and spiritual life not become balanced any longer and make the tendency of lopsided development come out. As the result of the imbalance and lopsided developmental tendency, human beings are facing the dilemma of the have-never-been development, that is to say, the realization of persons' overall development aims will have a risk of aborting.Truth, good and beauty have always been considered as the three top pursuits of human beings. Among them, it is believed that beauty is on the highest level. Beauty must come from unity between truth and good. Human beings may receive spiritual freedom and liberation by making aesthetics. The main aesthetical form of technological products is technological beauty, and the nature of technological beauty lies in good content in the form of the truth. Technological products form our general existing environment. Making aesthetical education and a spiritual nature to the person by technological products may be a kind of important method by which people can settle the problems of people's lack of spiritual life. If we want to utilize this method to settle the problems of imbalance between people's material life and spiritual life efficiently, What we should do immediately is to abide by the creative rules of technological beauty in order to make the products realize a change from the disagreeable nature to the agreeable nature of the products, that is, to make the products agreeable.The graduation thesis analyzes thoroughly negative effect on the person's overall developmental goals caused by flooding and inflating of the rationality of technology on the level of noticing human beings' overall development and from describing the positive and negative value of the rationality of technology as the beginning of graduation thesis. Then the thesis draws an important conclusion by probing technological beauty and the value of technological aesthetics that gleeful design of product, which abides by the creative rules of technological aesthetics on today's condition, is an efficient method which could keep a harmony between person's material life and spiritual life and save human beings out of developmental dilemma. At last, the thesis analyzes the several rules that should be consulted in the course of designing gleeful products and offers some general rules and principles including theoretical and practical asp...
Keywords/Search Tags:rationality of technology, technological beauty, person's overall development, gleeful design, technological product, functional beauty, rule
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