Review article

An Essay on Technology and Ethics

Maroje Višić orcid.org/0000-0002-0012-528X ; Udruga za razvoj civilnog društva Bonsai Dubrovnik

Abstract

This paper considers the question of technology. The starting point is M. Heidegger, who did not see technology as a handy tool, but as a way of uncovering the world and revealing the greatest danger for man. Then Marcuse’s notion about technology is taken into account. H. Marcuse was perhaps one of the first to see technology as the new ontology, but he was also one of the first who was extremely sceptical and critical towards the relationship between technology and man, although he ultimately remained a romantic. Lastly, H. Jonas is taken into account who, as a witness to the negative experience of technology’s ultimate possibility, states the ethical imperative for the technological civilisation: there must be life.

Keywords

technics; technology; ethics; Martin Heidegger; Herbert Marcuse; Hans Jonas

Hrčak ID:

200160

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/200160

Publication date:

10.5.2018.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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