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The Thinking Of Humanism On Technology

Posted on:2004-09-16Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:D L MaFull Text:PDF
GTID:2120360092495402Subject:Philosophy of Science and Technology
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This thesis mainly constitute by four parts as being showed below. In the first part, the author exercise a kind of reflection on technology. During the reflection process, the author points out that technology has been in a central position in the interrelations, which are weaved by technology, human beings, nature and society, and he also gives full analysis of those conditions under which technology is produced and necessity and significance that technology should be paid humanist attention.The different forms of appearance of western views of technology of humanism from old era to modem time are described in the second part of the thesis. In the part, the author bring to us the typical representative figures in the studies of philosophy of the technology and their representative works concerning technology, by which the author points out that the changes of the views of technology of humanism are depending on the changes of views of nature.In the third part, the author mainly discusses the typical figures in the modern society who are concerning the technology philosophically. A prominent philosopher has been given much paper and ink in this chapter and the name of the philosopher is MARTIN HEEDEGER, who is regarded the greatest philosopher of the last century.In the last part, not only the theoretical disadvantages of the views of technology of bumanism have been analyzed, but also the values and the essence of those theories have been affirmed. The author also emphasized the instructive meaning of those theories in the development of our century's modernization process, and finally points out that the attention which the humanist paid towards the technology is important and the imperative rings in the chains of development and improvement of technology and the development of society.
Keywords/Search Tags:Humanism, the philosophy of technology, the views of nature, the rationality of technology, Modern technology, the essence of technology
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