Técnica y fin de la historia: el cuestionamiento a la neutralidad moral de los aparatos técnicos en la filosofía de Günther Anders
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: It is commonly held that technology is morally neutral and that the evaluation should be applied exclusively to the purposes of those who use that means. This research revolves around the question of the moral neutrality of technology in the work of Günther Anders. In this regard, the philosopher enriches and, to a certain extent, corrects the assertion of this supposed neutrality by arguing that technology, at least that which emerged after the industrial revolutions, carries with it a direction that seeks to impose itself on any human criteria and direction and, for this reason, attempts to steer history with its sole impersonal objectives of growth and expansion. This direction is already an intentionality that challenges that neutrality. Moreover, this technical tutelage deprives the individual of the possibilities to create their own history and to be accountable for it, but, even more gravely, it advances towards a complete disregard for humanity and, ultimately, towards its annihilation. The answer to this question will allow us to understand the diagnoses and prognoses of Andersian philosophy of technology and the alternative courses of action that still appear in his work for a human, rational, free, and fraternal orientation of history.
Source: Universitas Philosophica
Authors: David Solís Nova, Andrea Báez-Alarcón
Institution: Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4413076408