The Prospect Of Chinese Modern Science And Technology Ethics

When the development of modern science and technology is enhancing people's living quality, it is also bringing about some negative effect on society and unfavorable influence on ethics and morality. On the surface, these are caused by the advancement of science and technology. In effect, they result form the distortion of people's moral values. Therefore, study and utilization on technical ethics need furthering. Starting from the sources of ethics and technology, this research paper analyses and expounds the appearing, developing of technical ethics and the problems and prospects of Chinese technical ethics. Moreover, this paper proposes the strategies and suggestions for construction of Chinese technical ethics. The author believes that principles of technical ethics should be in accordance with the situations in China, and that various ethical norms should be integrated so as to reach common ground for constructing operation mechanism of technical ethics. To sum up, firstly, the far-sighted awareness of morality and responsibility on the part of subjects in scientific and technical activities is to be advocated. Secondly, integration and harmony of scientific spirit and humanistic spirit should be reinforced. In this manner, wisdom of both scientists and moral philosophers could be brought into full play. The scientist and the moral philosopher should communicate with each other freely and exchange ideas with the public, so as to achieve sound interaction and reasonable balance. These two factors are of vital significance in carrying out and reinforcing the notion that science and technology should be human-centered, in implementing humanistic, harmonious and full-scale scientific outlook on development, and in fully building up harmonious society.