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Research On Borgmann's Idea Of Technological Alienation

Posted on:2021-04-07Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J R ZhiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2370330611457379Subject:Philosophy
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American famous philosopher Albert Borgmann was one of the advanced representative of American technology.Carl Mitchum,known as the father of technology philosophy,said "Albert's works are the most comprehensive technology philosophy in the English world ",for the analysis of technology alienation to popularization and technical reform ideas for popularization,wide attention by many scholars.After inheriting the research method of Heidegger's phenomenology,he has absorbed Mumford's and Ellur's research thoughts on the nature of technology,and made a deep reflection on the alienation of technology.Finally,the theory of "device paradigm" is put forward.In its view,technology has past,present and future,so the research on technical problems should be updated and developed with the change of technological environment.In the early stage of his thinking,Bergman believed that the essence of technological alienation is the participation in reality replaced by consumption.Under the technological social environment,human beings tend to consume the commodities with "availability" to remove the burden,but it is in this mode that human beings lose the participation in reality and realize themselves.But as the technology changes in the environment,and its thought has further developed,Borgmann think that with the advent of the era of network information,more reflected in the information technology alienation alienation,the virtual sex of technical information and super realism make human more addicted to consumer technology information,people forget the natural information and cultural information for our understanding of the important functions of rich and reality.Aiming at the problems caused by technology alienation,Bergman pointed out that we should carry out reform by "focusing on practice",which not only affirmed the subjectivity status between human and technology,but also pointed out a new direction for solving the problem of technology alienation.Overall,the analysis of the system,the Borgmann technology alienation thoughts will help us to grasp its theoretical characteristics and explore its modern value,combined with the actual situation in our country can be found that his thoughts on technology reform to implement way,set up correct consumption idea,construction of information ethics have considerable significance.
Keywords/Search Tags:Borgmann, Technology Alienation, Information Alienation, Practicality, Focusing on Practice
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