Technological Civilization Theory

The essence of modernization sweeping the globe in the21st century is the processthat the development model of the technical civilization generalizes to the world. Withthe expansion of the capitalist mode of production as the carrier of Western civilization,the internal tension is gradually enlarged to the global crisis. Since1960s, somedeveloped countries started the transformation from industrial society to informationsociety，there is important theoretical and practical significance for the foresight of thedevelopment mode of future civilization. To some late-developed countries，viaticselection of the modern development, it is an important problem. Vyacheslav S. Stepin’cultural philosophy thoughts with theory of technological civilization as its core are theunique angle of the thinking development patterns of Civilization.Culture is the internal standard that it is to identify、define civilization mode，as agenetic information within social organism, cultural preservation、transfer、produce theproduction、activities and communicational procedure which constitute the entiresociety-the historical experience. Culture commonality is the underlying mechanismsof social activities and the development, and is the basic core of the system of values,culture commonality as a scale, can divide cultural patterns in the human history intotwo basic models-the traditional civilization and technological civilization, both forthe relationship between people and the world has a different understanding in essence.any kind of changes in civilization pattern are based on innovations of culturecommonality, in the process, philosophical ideas reflect、filter and predict to coreconnotations of culture commonality，that it is an important way to reconstructionculture commonality. The value pedigree of technological civilizations emphasis on theforces that human beings conquer the nature, scientific technology provides a realisticdriving for this kind of value proposition, and the worship of violence is letting humanbeings face profound alienation of the survival and the global ecological crisis. The3rd emerging scientific revolution brought a new perspective with systemic、integralviewpoint to look at the nature, a new world scientific picture is being rebuilt. Culturalcommonality of the future civilization should include non-violent strategy to nature,man and human society，it is an inherent requirement which protects the harmoniousdevelopment between man and nature、man with each other.Vyacheslav S. Stepin’technological Civilization theory examines the lack of valueorientation of technological civilization from the multiple perspective of culture-philosophy-science, and provides a unique road of future civilization. Technicalcivilization theory inherits and merges social patterns of the Marxist theory、the multiplemeaning of spiritual philosophy traditions of East and West and scientific world picturein the modern times, there are important theoretical inspiration and practical value forChina’s construction of modernization guided by the concept of scientific developmentand harmonious society.