Ethical Idealism, Technology and Practice: a Manifesto.

Philosophy & Technology Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Epub Date: 2022-09-09 DOI:10.1007/s13347-022-00575-7
Joan Casas-Roma
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Technology has become one of the main channels through which people engage in most of their everyday activities. When working, learning, or socializing, the affordances created by technological tools determine the way in which users interact with one another and their environment, thus favoring certain actions and behaviors, while discouraging others. The ethical dimension behind the use of technology has been already studied in recent works, but the question is often formulated in a protective way that focuses on shielding the users from potential detrimental effects. Nevertheless, when considering collateral ethical benefits that the use of technology could bring about, virtue ethics and the notions of "practice" and "practical wisdom" present new opportunities to harness this potential. By understanding the combination of technology, its users and their interactions as a system, technology can be seen as the space where most of its users' daily practice happens. Through this practice, users can get the chance to collaterally develop and enhance their ethical awareness, sensitivity and reasoning capabilities. This work is shaped as a manifesto that provides the background, motivations and directions needed to ask a complementary question about the ethics of technology that aims towards the potentiality behind the use of technology. Instead of focusing on shielding the users, the proposed ethical idealist approach to the ethics of technology aims to empower them by understanding their use of technology as the space where the development of their practical wisdom, understood in the virtue ethics' sense, takes place.

伦理理想主义、技术与实践:一份宣言。
科技已经成为人们从事大部分日常活动的主要渠道之一。在工作、学习或社交时,技术工具创造的支持决定了用户与他人和环境互动的方式,从而有利于某些行动和行为,而不利于其他行动和行为。在最近的研究中已经研究了技术使用背后的道德层面,但这个问题往往是以一种保护性的方式提出的,重点是保护用户免受潜在的有害影响。然而,当考虑到使用技术可能带来的附带伦理利益时,美德伦理以及“实践”和“实践智慧”的概念为利用这种潜力提供了新的机会。通过将技术、用户及其交互作为一个系统来理解,技术可以被视为大多数用户日常实践发生的空间。通过这种实践,用户可以有机会附带发展和提高他们的道德意识、敏感性和推理能力。这项工作被塑造成一份宣言,提供了背景、动机和方向,以提出一个关于技术伦理的补充问题,旨在挖掘技术使用背后的潜力。所提出的伦理理想主义技术伦理方法不是专注于屏蔽用户,而是旨在通过将他们对技术的使用理解为他们实践智慧发展的空间,从而赋予他们权力,这在美德伦理的意义上被理解。
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