Research On Technical Moral Agency

In the course of the development of philosophy of technology,the understanding of technological autonomy was formed at the earliest time.The traditional macro perspective made the early philosophers of technology unable to understand the essence of technology in depth,unable to reconcile the tense interpersonal relationship,and instead produced a negative theory of technological determinism.After the ethical turn in the research of philosophy of technology,a more empirical research method was adopted to put forward technology The study of moral initiative,technical moral design and technical responsibility.The comparison between the concept of technological moral initiative and the concept of autonomy is helpful to clarify the technological moral initiative.Autonomy comes from people's free will,and technology obviously does not have consciousness and will not produce autonomy,but real cases show that technology does have moral impact on people or even interfere with people's moral decision-making.This kind of technological moral initiative is realized by human designers through technological design.To maintain a certain degree of technological moral initiative is conducive to promoting the moral status of human beings and harmonizing the relationship between human beings and technology.Therefore,it is necessary to carry out moral design of technology,which needs to draw lessons from the classic theory of technological design and pay attention to the ethical norms of designers.There is a reasonable basis for the moral initiative as the judgment standard of the moral initiative.The technical moral initiative can only be presented in the united body formed with people and is one-sided.Therefore,technology and technical objects do not have the full status of the moral initiative.Nevertheless,we should respect technology and support technology to maintain a certain degree of moral initiative.The hybrid technology system formed by the combination of human and technology has become the main problem-solving mode in the current society,which not only provides us with convenience,but also brings the problem of accountability of the hybrid technology system.The key to deal with this problem is to make clear the principle that responsibility is consistent with moral initiative,and adhere to the methods of responsibility division such as disclaimer and technology classification system.