Morality and Technology: The End of the Means  

Oleh:

Latour, Bruno ; Venn, Couze (Translator)

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Theory, Culture & Society vol. 19 no. 5-6 (Okt. 2002), page 247–260.
Topik: 'ends of means'; exploration; morality; technology; values
Fulltext: 247TCAS195-6.pdf (57.13KB)

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Technology is always limited to the realm of means, while morality is supposed to deal with ends. In this theoretical article about comparing those two regimes of enunciation, it is argued that technology is on the contrary characterized by the 'ends of means' that is the impossibility of being limited to tools; technical artefacts are never tools if what is meant by this is a transmission of function in a mastered way. Once this modification of the meaning of technology is accepted, then it is possible to relate technology, in a totally different way, to morality which is not about values, but about the exploration of ends.

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