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Alienation Of Science And Technology Review And Interpretation Of Contemp

Posted on:2010-03-20Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H L ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2189360275477987Subject:Philosophy of science and technology
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Ever since people began to concern about the technology, there has been on the technology to the impact of human society have been debating. Human invention of technology is designed to serve mankind, but the technology offers great benefits to mankind, but also brought calamity to human beings to such an extent that differences have become a hostile force society and even endanger human counter. In this regard, scholars have often referred to as "technical alienation" alienation of technology research are Philosophy of Technology has been an important problem, but there are many research for technical alienation at all levels to discuss the negative effects, and in contemporary how to further understand and explore the impact of technological alienation has weakened the technical consequences of alienation between man and the natural person and realize the harmonious development of society have important theoretical and practical significance, this is the basic starting point of this article.This article holds that technology is a complex system, and its alienation has many causes, in addition to the attributes of the technology itself, such as anti-nature, anti-law and not outside purpose, technology creation and application of the principal is also a major source of alienation. The former determines the inevitable alienation, which determines the alienation with controllable. At present, the academic community has a variety of technologies regarding the definition of alienation, these statements are inconsistent, bringing awareness of the confusion. Therefore, the concept of alienation technical connotation, are the basis for the discussion of technical alienation. This part examined the concept of the source of alienation, Marx's labor theory of alienation and the current academic alienation of technology the two definitions, with a view from the verification of these theories to draw a precise technical definition of alienation, in order to later correct read and look at the technical direction of a good bedding alienation Technological development has promoted the development of social production, enriching the social and cultural content, to change the way of social life, making the survival and development of mankind has been an integral and technology. However, the technology in a better life for humanity, it also brought calamity to mankind, of modern technology to bring a blessing to mankind and the concentrated expression of evil in the ecological, social, and three aspects of the field of the human spirit. In the ecological level, the application of science and technology to enhance the natural human ability to control, but also brought about environmental pollution, ecological imbalance and climatic deterioration, destruction of human survival environment: On a social level, technical applications greatly enhance the labor productivity, an increase of material wealth, improve people's quality of life, but it also expands people's cultural differences and knowledge gaps, but also makes global culture facing the danger of imbalance, it is highly likely to lead to the diversity of human civilization reduction and, more importantly, technology development and application is also a serious threat to world peace and development; in the field of the human spirit, technological advances have brought a substantial increase in labor productivity, so that people's work time, leisure time increased, in part, to people from the shackles of the past heavy labor emancipated, and promoted the free and full development, but at the same time deprived of human liberty, and the challenges of human nature, shrinkage of the human spirit. Well, technology is better in the end are so evil? This article is from the alienation of science and technology to give the ideal of thinking, to the people a correct understanding of the alienation of science and technology forward. Let go of human thinking about how to better use of science and technology to better mankind.
Keywords/Search Tags:Alienation, Science and Technology, Examine and interpret
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