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From This Level Scientific And Technological Alienation

Posted on:2012-11-08Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X Y DingFull Text:PDF
GTID:2199330335958555Subject:Marxist philosophy
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"Alienation of Science in this article not only includes the physical alienation for human beings from the science and technology, but also the mental alienation. To be specific, the alienation of science means that human beings in practice create and take advantage of technology to conduct objective activities to meet their own survival needs. However, the technology has not become a perfect and kind Savior as human beings wish. On the contrary, it may become human being's exclusive and hostile power, ruling, controlling as well as constraining human beings themselves. But, the author's argument aims at combing critical history of the alienation of science, and finding relevant issues. And then analyze these issues to put forward some methods and solutions.In the first part, author rectifies some key concepts to be discussed in this article, because in the author's view, if these concepts are very vague, others will misunderstand them, thus bringing about many difficulties in understanding this whole article. In the second part, the author studies four periods of human dilemmas and the relevant theorists' critics for technology, and then concludes the roots of alienation of science. In the third part, according to above studies, the author, based on human beings, proposes that we should stick to the principles on the road of solving alienation of science.Firstly, "Science and Technology", "Alienation" and "Alienation of science" are three key words in this article. Science and technology are different in both time of appearance and essential difference:What science answers is "Why" and "What", but "technology", then replies "how to do" and "how to do improve efficiency". The alienation refers to the subject makes its essential power objectification in practical activities, but after this kind of objectification is formed, it then becomes an external exclusive power to control, constrain and threaten human themselves. However, something about the alienation of science has already been discussed in this introduction; therefore, we will no longer talk about it here.Next, the four stages of human dilemmas of alienation of science are:moral deviation resulting from science and technology, the significance loss, the freedom loss, the suppression of human nature and the spiritual decomposition. Lao-tse. Zhuang-zi and Rousseau conduct criticism for technology in moral aspects. Marx Weber carries on criticism for it in science and technology aspects, and Frankfurt School mentions technology in science and technology aspects, however, post-modernity criticizes it in spiritual aspects.Finally, based on analysis on definition of alienation of science and the human dilemma, the author summarizes advantages and disadvantages of each theorist, and finally obtained methods or measures to eliminate alienation:To establish scientific and reasonable criteria of science evaluation to return and stick to scientific development concepts. Research significance of this article is not to provide a perfect standard for eliminating the alienation of science by one bugle blast, and the reasons are as follows: Firstly, alienation of science has already penetrated into every aspect of our life and work, especially the fundamental field and key links of economic society:therefore, elimination is not an easy case. Moreover, human beings in the modern society is only a small part of human history, and we are the individuals with limit experiences, hence, it is very difficult for us to master all details of science and technology or to forecast each of its consequence in a short period. However, we do not mean that this article is insignificant. If we regard technology as a person, and see alienation of science as a symptom, elimination of this symptom will be like a process of spinning. During this process, each time we spin, we will make a little bit contribution to elimination of disease, and this is the real purpose of this article.
Keywords/Search Tags:Science and technology, Alienation, Alienation of science, Scientific progress
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