Philosophical Reflection Of The Alienation Of Science And Technology

In modern times, technological alienation becomes a popular and controversial topicwhich involved in many discussions in philosophy field. Nowadays, economic society developsin a rapidly speed, and we all can see the efforts which technology and science brought to thesociety and human civilization.“Science and technology are the primary productive forces”, thedeveloping pace of technology will not stop and the results will not be erased, we have torecognize the improvement of economy and society that technology and science have contributefor us. But, at the same time, we must clearly realize that scientific technology is a double-edgedsword, when things develop or grow, there will always appear two sides of issues: pros and cons.Things could not be perfect, the negative side usually come with the positive one, they mightcombine together or exchange something between them in order to internalized for themotivation of the thing, and achieve a substantive improvement. We should fully understand this,not to deny the value of scientific technology, or even eliminate it because of the alienationsoccur during developments. People around the world are deeply concerning about how to avoidtechnological alienations, and how to apply science and technology properly. This essay usehumanized technology as a starting point, combined with the rationality of technologicalapplication and development, main social value concepts and also described preventions andmeasure for technological alienations’phenomenon.The text is divided into four parts:The first part elaborates the importance of philosophical reflection for technologicalalienations. It includes the concepts of technological alienation, the sources of alienation, as wellas researches from domestic and foreign countries about this topic.The second part is descriptions and analysis of the root reasons of forming a technologicalalienation. This part contains analysis of alienations formed by the original technology propertiesand alienations formed during the creation process and later development of science andtechnology. We can only put the right remedy when we investigate the deep reasons for theproblem. The analysis in this part of the text is significant for this topic.The third part of this essay is about how technological alienation obstructs humanactivities, including technology’s subjective oppression towards human and the dilemma peopleare facing. Use crisis of human versus nature, society and themselves to illustrate the seriousconsequences that alienations brought, and also reflect the urgent situation of alienations thatneed to be solved.The last part is an analysis of measures to eliminate technological alienations. Relate toprevious analysis of the root causes, plus predictions for negative effort toward human society, this part of the essay gives out possible actions to avoid and remove technological alienations.This part is also the main purpose and thesis for the entire essay.In short, this essay emphasizes the use of dialectical points of view to look at the problemscaused by science and technology, recognize its value, eliminate the negative side and provide aprotection for human society’s constant development. This essay starts from the study ofrelationship between science, technology and humanity, use technological humanization toreplace the alienations, to achieve the goal of “people oriented” harmonious society. Reinforcerational applications of technology and science; increase the construction of social core valuesystem, use the correct value concepts and strong social mechanism to eliminate alienationsvirtually, implement comprehensive human development.