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The Ethics of Ordinary Technology (Hardcover)
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The Ethics of Ordinary Technology (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
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Technology is even more than our world, our form of life, our
civilization. Technology interacts with the world to change it.
Philosophers need to seriously address the fluidity of a smartphone
interface, the efficiency of a Dyson vacuum cleaner, or the
familiar noise of an antique vacuum cleaner. Beyond their
phenomenological description, the emotional experience acquires
moral significance and in some cases even supplies ethical
resources for the self. If we leave this dimension of modern
experience unaddressed, we may miss something of value in
contemporary life. Combining European humanism, Anglophone
pragmatism, and Asian traditions, Michel Puech pleads for an
"ethical turn" in the way we understand and address technological
issues in modern day society. Puech argues that the question of
"power" is what needs to be reconsidered today. In doing so, he
provides a three-tier distinction of power: power to modify the
outer world (our first-intention method in any case: technology);
power over other humans (our enduring obsession: politics and
domination); power over oneself (ethics and wisdom).
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