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Turning Toward Technology - A Glimpse into the Asian Paradigm (Hardcover)
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Turning Toward Technology - A Glimpse into the Asian Paradigm (Hardcover)
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We live in an age when the dominant technologically utilitarian
worldview is undergoing a transformation. To increase our awareness
of this change, Turning Toward Technology introduces readers to the
possibility of an alternative technological worldview by examining
foundational concepts to Asian thought. The early Eastern
philosophical treatment of technology was not ethical, but
ontological, exhibiting sensitivity to how human existence was
defined and determined in its relation to technology and to reality
as a whole. Within the Eastern cultural orientation, technological
development was guided by a singular aesthetic sensibility to the
useful, the good, the beautiful, the true, and the holy. Instead of
controlling the shape of future technology by systems of rational
management, George Teschner and Alessandro Tomasi recommend a view
of technology that arises from questioning fundamental assumptions
within Western culture about knowledge, reality, and human nature.
Turning Toward Technology aims to stimulate awareness of an
alternative technological paradigm, and thus a different mode of
social action that can establish an optimistic future for global
civilization.
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