TY - JOUR
T1 - Technology and the good life
T2 - suggestions for a theological turn in the philosophy of technology
AU - Lewin, David
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - This essay argues that a purely secular philosophy of technology omits an essential aspect of technical activity: the ultimate concern for which any action is undertaken. By way of an analysis of Borgmann and Hickman, I show that the philosophy of technology cannot articulate the nature of the good life without reference to an ultimacy beyond finite human goods. This paradoxically implies that human beings desire something infinite which they cannot name, a paradox that theologians have long understood in terms of a theological dialectic.
AB - This essay argues that a purely secular philosophy of technology omits an essential aspect of technical activity: the ultimate concern for which any action is undertaken. By way of an analysis of Borgmann and Hickman, I show that the philosophy of technology cannot articulate the nature of the good life without reference to an ultimacy beyond finite human goods. This paradoxically implies that human beings desire something infinite which they cannot name, a paradox that theologians have long understood in terms of a theological dialectic.
KW - interface
KW - Borgmann
KW - Tillich
KW - philosophy of technology
KW - theology
KW - Hickman
KW - good life
KW - theological dialectic
UR - https://www.pdcnet.org/collection-anonymous/browse?fp=techne
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U2 - 10.5840/techne20111529
DO - 10.5840/techne20111529
M3 - Article
SN - 1091-8264
VL - 15
SP - 82
EP - 95
JO - Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology
JF - Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology
IS - 2
ER -