Responsible Ethics for Global Technology |
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Authors: | Egbert Schuurman |
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Institution: | (1) Technological University of Delft, Delft, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | Technical thinking predominates in industrial society. It also predominates ethics. Virtually everything is viewed in terms
of the technical model or—more broadly—the reductionistic machine model. Neither of these models has any room for life as
a fundamental and decisive factor. Huge problems have been the result. Our appreciation of technology will change completely
if the will to power and mastery will be exchanged for respect for all that lives, in all its multi-coloured variety and multiplicity.
The aim of technology should become, not to break down and to reduce reality in order to master and control, but to unfold
and cause to flourish. We should nurture the perspective of the living and vibrant garden-city, of a culture that takes care
of nature and the environment. An ethics of responsibility involves a large agenda. It calls for its own, distinct development, and a spiritual and philosophical struggle with the
dominant traditions of ethics in our culture. |
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