The Impacts of Technology: Anthropological Foundations

This article argues that technological activity constitutes a fundamental part of who we humans are as a species. Therefore the impacts of technology on the natural and social world should not be considered as the consequence of some particular invention called 'technology' but as the cons...

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Published in:Concilium
Main Author: Dumouchel, Paul 1951- (Author)
Format: Print Article
Language:English
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Published: SCM Press [2019]
In: Concilium
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Technics / Human being / Nature / Politics / Ethics
IxTheo Classification:NBD Doctrine of Creation
NBE Anthropology
NCJ Ethics of science
ZC Politics in general
Further subjects:B Anthropology
B Technological innovations
B Human Beings
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Summary:This article argues that technological activity constitutes a fundamental part of who we humans are as a species. Therefore the impacts of technology on the natural and social world should not be considered as the consequence of some particular invention called 'technology' but as the consequences of what we do. Technology is not something external to us that affects our behaviour, it is essentially the form of our activity. Therefore, technology conceived as something, an external force that changes our world does not exist; it is a myth. This change of focus suggests that when we evaluate the consequences of our technical activity it is fundamental tofocus on the political consequences of technical innovations rather than on their ethical dimension as if that was something that existed in itself independently of what we do.
ISSN:0010-5236
Contains:Enthalten in: Concilium