Ethics of Transitions by Jim Dratwa

Author:Jim Dratwa [Dratwa, Jim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781119341130
Published: 2022-08-06T00:00:00+00:00

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“The Prometheus definitively unbound, to whom science confers forces never before known, and the economy its unbridled impulse, demands an ethics which, by freely consented fetters, prevents man’s power from becoming a curse for him… The promise of modern technology has been reversed into threat, or else the latter has indissolubly allied itself with the former (the promise of technology and the threat of technology). It goes beyond the recognition of a physical threat. Nature’s submission to human happiness has brought about by the immoderation of its success, which now extends to man’s own nature, the greatest challenge to the human being that its doing has ever brought.

Everything in this new human action is new, without possible comparison with what precedes, both in terms of modality and order of magnitude: what man can do today and what he will subsequently be forced to continue to do, in the irresistible exercise of this power, has no equivalent in past experience. All inherited wisdom about right behavior was carved for this experience. No traditional ethics therefore instructs us on the norms of ‘good’ and ‘evil’ to which the entirely new modalities of power and its possible creations must be subjected…

In this void, which is at the same time the void of the current relativism of values… What can serve as a compass? The anticipation of the threat itself!”13

a small pile of rocks with the one word: UNLESS14.

“From the moment we stop saying: «Bah!, such is the order of things; it has always been like that, and we won’t change anything to it», from the moment we feel that this so-called order of things is in flagrant contradiction with the will for justice, for equality, for solidarity that lives in us.”15

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