Ethics of science and technology

Ethics of science and technology
Aim of science - obtaining knowledge;
Modern scientist – is a product of multi-century traditions, experience;
We today are hypnotized by science in a certain way;
It is product of human mind;
It is a kingdom of mind.

Ethics of science and technology
But science is quite controversial:
It created killing chemicals, gas cameras, and created gas-masks;
De-codified DNA and cures many diseases, but new diseases can be created the same way;
Nuclear energy and nuclear weaponry.

Ethics of science and technology
Often modern science makes people percept nature as a ‘set of objects’, a set of material factors;
This makes people not to understand, but possess over the Nature --------------------------------------”anthropocentrism”;
M. Heidegger: “a planetary imperialism of if a technically sufficient mankind”

Ethics of science and technology
“Techne” – Greek word for art!;
We have to vary ‘tech(k)ne’ from technical things (M. Heidegger).
Technology is a system if artificial devices of society, a part of labor force, a material basis of each social formation.
Science and technology accompany humanity since antiquity: however, the attitude to it was mostly “applied”. Now: society becomes highly ‘mechanized’.

Science and technology
Rareness of true, fundamental discoveries;
Many global social problems are rooted in technological developments (deficit of energy, environmental issues, wars) ;
K. Jaspers: a man intervenes so deeply into the Nature with techn., that becomes only a co-participant of the evolution process.