The Enlightenment Of Andrew Feenberg's Critical Theory Of Technology To The Construction Of Ecological Civilization

At present,human is facing with serious ecological environment problems,and it is urgent to promote ecological civilization construction.There are many reasons that lead to ecological problems.Academia put forward ideas to solve ecological problems and promote the construction of ecological civilization from different perspectives.However,the emergence of ecological problems is always accompanied by technological development in the process of modernization.Therefore,it is necessary to discuss ecological governance and ecological civilization construction from the perspective of technology.Influenced by the environmental movement and other democratic movement,Feenberg explored the possibility of technological democratization and produced the critical theory of technology.Feenberg's critical theory of technology has deeply discussed the causes of ecological problems,and pointed out the path of ecological civilization construction,which has an important inspiration for the construction of ecological civilization in China.In terms of the causes of ecological problems,Feenberg believes that the expansion of technological rationality in the process of technological development makes it increasingly divorced from daily experience,which makes human beings don't to think of the consequence of technology application.Secondly,human's own limitations on the sense of ontology and epistemology also affect human's prediction of the ecological consequences of technology.Furthermore,the capitalist model has made modern technology anti-ecological in nature.On the technological path of ecological civilization construction,Feenberg's Instrumentalization Theory explains the design of technology from the perspective of the interaction between technology and society,which means that it is possible to build environment-friendly technology.Secondly,Feenberg's technical codes theory points out that technology neutrality is an illusion.The modern technology system represents the hegemonic interests of capitalism,and it does not take the protection of ecological environment into consideration of technology.the construction of ecological civilization means that we should transition from capitalist civilization to socialist civilization.Under the Socialist civilization,the respect and protection of nature can be included in the technical code.Finally,Feenberg advocates the democratization of technology to inspire the Democratic potential of technology,believes that public participation can not only narrow the gap between rationality and experience,but also modify the capitalist technical codes,so as to reduce the negative impact of technology on the ecological environment.Feenberg's critical theory of technology has important enlightenment for ecological governance and ecological civilization construction in China.First of all,it has further deepened our understanding of the relationship between technology and nature.The traditional view of technology criticizes technology from the outside of technology and thinks that technology itself will inevitably lead to ecological problems.The critical theory of technology analyzes the reasons for the opposition between technology and nature from the inside of technology and denies the inevitable connection between technology and ecological problems.Furthermore,it provides theoretical guidance for the current practice of ecological civilization in China,namely that we can achieve harmony between economic development and ecological environmental protection by incorporating environmental protection needs into technological design.In addition,it also broadens our mind of dealing with ecological problems and building ecological civilization.Feenberg's technological transformation path of building ecological civilization is a beneficial supplement to the existing construction methods of ecological civilization,such as formulating legal system,establishing the concept of environmental protection,changing economic development mode,etc.