Asimov’s Ethics Vision Of The Robots’ World

Isaac Asimov, one of the most representative science-fiction writers in the Golden Age of America, was the father of the robot novels. Isaac Asimov proposed three laws of robotics, which was the basic rule of robotics in modern society. The intelligent robot in his works had aroused strong affection and resonance from public and scientific elites. His works of science fiction were considered to be the classics in science fictions of robot. Isaac Asimov was honored as "a miracle of national resources and nature" by the US government. The writer who possess an international reputation of the best-selling science fiction, spending a good part time of his life in seeking for the peak of machinery civilization, that is the inference of the peaceful or tension relationship between humanoid robot and human beings, from which he wrote five novels and one novella:I, Robot, The Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, The Robots of Dawn, Robots and Empire, and The Complete Robot. Robots also played an important role in another series of epic masterpiece which are the Foundation series, including the series of Prelude to Foundation and Postlude to Foundation.The most commendable in this paper is Asimov’s literary ethicized attempts of the robot. He merely regarded the robot as human beings’assistant, or a simple role to help people to prepare the extraterrestrial colonization, but instead giving them a surge of moral strength. Asimov proposed "Three Laws of Robotics", and even created a phrase "Robot Psychology", giving the consciousness of "Being Human" to the robot positron brain circuits, even the more powerful ethnic moral logic of "I prefer to be the Patron saint of God", Where does these tentative idea to humanize the machines comes from? Will it become the best scientific choice model of peaceful "Carbon-iron Civilization"? In Asimov’s novel, his intentions are reflected in every word and sentence.This paper consists of the following five parts, introduction, chapter 1,2,3 and conclusion. The introduction has mainly introduced Asimov and his works, the definition of relevant concepts such as science fiction, ethical choice and scientific choice and so on. As well as the research status in home and abroad and the significance of this topic. The first chapter is the overview of Asimov’s robot world, describing the robot’s moral tendencies and ethics in Asimov’s works. On the basis of an ethical literary critical term "Sphinx factor" which can be used to describe the ethical conflict of human nature and brutish nature in ethical choice, a new term "Frankenstein factor" has been coined to express the ethical conflict of human nature and mechanical nature which will happen on artificial humans in scientific choice. This paper chooses two key "robot-man" characters: Andrew and R. Daneel, as an object to be described in detail. Andrew is placed in Chapter 2 which is "Andrew:human robot", at the same time, Daneel is placed into Chapter 3 which is "Daneel:godlike robot". The paper emphatically analyzed two different journeys of these two robots, one of them is that Robot Andrew who desired to become a human being had realized the dream eventually in 200 years, the other is that Robot Daneel who owned superman trait had guarded human beings in his way for 20,000 years. Both of them reflect the contradictoriness and transcendence of Frankenstein factor. The description of the two robots also represents future development direction of two kinds of robot ethics. The conclusion summarized Asimov’s profound of ethical world to the robot world, pointing to its far-reaching implications for the ethical contemplation of the race of robots in science fiction.