Morality and technology - The end of the means

被引：275

作者：

Latour, B ^{[1
]}

Venn, C ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Ecole Natl Mines, Paris, France

来源：

THEORY CULTURE & SOCIETY | 2002年 / 19卷 / 5-6期

关键词：

'ends of means'; exploration; morality; technology; values;

D O I：

10.1177/026327602761899246

中图分类号：

G [文化、科学、教育、体育]; C [社会科学总论];

学科分类号：

03 [法学]; 0303 [社会学]; 04 [教育学];

摘要：

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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