- Tytuł:
- Technology, environmental sustainability and the ethics of anthropoholism
- Autorzy:
- Bassey, Samuel Akpan
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/2077950.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2020-09-17
- Wydawca:
- Stowarzyszenie Naukowe Przestrzeń Społeczna i Środowisko
- Tematy:
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anthropoholism
technology
sustainability
environmental ethics
live and let live - Opis:
- Technology has tremendously shaped human society, economy and environment. The quest for better ways to human development has always been a key driver of technological advancement. However, such advancements have somewhat turned human beings to slaves of modern technology, its effects are therefore devastating. Several philosophers of technology have described technology as alienating: making humans lose their connection with fellow beings and nature, besides causing environmental degradation. Even though civilisation faces new unprecedented challenges regarding the negative impacts of technology on human societies, it can still be useful. This work posits that environmental challenges threatening humanity are not something that can be simply overcome by reducing or increasing technological use, but rather by humans re-thinking the attitude in which technology is applied to the environment. This study investigates the possibility of environmental sustainability through the ethics of anthropoholism. This work agrees with several environmentalists that the traditional anthropocentric attitude, which sees the environment only as a store-house for human exploitation with the use of technology is the major reason behind environmental degradation. This research reveals that humans need to adopt the ethics of anthropoholism, which sees the environment as having inherent value and humans as caretakers of the environment. Anthropoholism is the idea that human beings are a part of nature and that (s)he cannot exist independently of the environment, hence technological tools should be developed and applied with the live and let live attitude towards the environment. This study, as philosophical research, is critical in approach and uses the textual and contextual analytic method in arriving at its conclusions.
- Źródło:
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Przestrzeń Społeczna; 2020, 2, 2/2020 (20); 85 - 110
2084-1558 - Pojawia się w:
- Przestrzeń Społeczna
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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