Original scientific paper
APPLICATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNOLOGY FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF CHRISTIAN ETHICS
Tonči Matulić
Abstract
In the article the author systematically analyses the epistemological,
historical-philosophical and sociological implications of
the development and application of technology from the Christian
perspective, with special emphasis on the Christian-ethical implications.
In order to recognize the essence of modified epistemological paradigm
in the interpretation and understanding of technology, which involves
the interpretation and understanding of technical sciences as a whole,
the analysis of the topic in the article is methodologically divided
into five sequential parts. The first part investigates some essential
features of the historical metamorphosis of natural-scientific and
technological enterprise from the original cultural perspective, i.e.
the ancient understanding of reality. The second part, in contrast to
the ancient cosmological order, analyses the intra-world implications.
The third part explores a number of important aspects of modern
metamorphoses as regards the interpretation and understanding of
the world, man, nature, ethics, science and technology. This makes
the so-called historical metamorphoses in the interpretation and
understanding of technology complete. The fourth part analyses some
aspects of philosophical-ethical metamorphosis of the fundamental
understanding of the relationship between the purpose and means.
The fifth part of the article analyses some aspects of the social
metamorphosis conditioned by the adoption of the idea of social
progress in materialistic terms, backed by technological mastering of
nature, including man too. In the last, sixth, part of the article some
principled hints on (pre)conditions for the realization of the partner’s
dialogue between technology and Christian ethics are given, with
emphasis on some essential technological pre-postulates of Christian
ethics, since, without them, it is not possible to imagine, let alone
to carry out, a fruitful and partner’s dialogue between the Christian
ethics and technology.
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Hrčak ID:
25075
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Publication date:
21.12.2005.
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