Guest Editors’ Introduction: New Challenges to the Enlightenment: How Twenty-First-Century Sociotechnological Systems Facilitate Organized Immaturity and How to Counteract It

IF 3.4 2区 哲学 Q2 BUSINESS
A. Scherer, C. Neesham, Dennis Schoeneborn, Markus Scholz
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Organized immaturity, the reduction of individual capacities for public use of reason constrained by sociotechnological systems, constitutes a significant pushback against the project of Enlightenment. Forms of immaturity have long been a concern for philosophers and social theorists, such as Kant, Arendt, Fromm, Marcuse, and Foucault. Recently, Zuboff’s concept of “surveillance capitalism” describes how advancements in digital technologies lead to new, increasingly sophisticated forms of organized immaturity in democratic societies. We discuss how sociotechnological systems initially designed to meet human needs can inhibit the multidimensional development of individuals as mature citizens. To counteract these trends, we suggest two mechanisms: disorganizing immaturity as a way to safeguard individuals’ and collectives’ negative freedoms (freedoms from), and organizing maturity as a way to strengthen positive freedoms (freedoms to). Finally, we provide an outlook on the five further articles that constitute the Business Ethics Quarterly Special Issue “Sociotechnological Conditions of Organized Immaturity in the Twenty-First Century.”
《对启蒙运动的新挑战:21世纪社会技术系统如何促进有组织的不成熟以及如何抵制它
有组织的不成熟,受社会技术系统约束的个人公共理性使用能力的减少,构成了对启蒙运动的重大阻碍。长期以来,不成熟的形式一直是哲学家和社会理论家所关注的问题,如康德、阿伦特、弗洛姆、马尔库塞和福柯。最近,祖博夫的“监视资本主义”概念描述了数字技术的进步如何导致民主社会中出现新的、日益复杂的有组织的不成熟形式。我们讨论了最初为满足人类需求而设计的社会技术系统如何抑制个人作为成熟公民的多维发展。为了抵制这些趋势,我们提出了两种机制:将不成熟作为一种保护个人和集体的消极自由(从的自由)的方式,并将成熟作为一种加强积极自由(到的自由)的方式。最后,我们对构成《商业伦理季刊》特刊“21世纪有组织的不成熟的社会技术条件”的另外五篇文章进行了展望。
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自引率
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发文量
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期刊介绍: Business Ethics Quarterly (BEQ) is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal that publishes theoretical and empirical research relevant to the ethics of business. Since 1991 this multidisciplinary journal has published articles and reviews on a broad range of topics, including the internal ethics of business organizations, the role of business organizations in larger social, political and cultural frameworks, and the ethical quality of market-based societies and market-based relationships. It recognizes that contributions to the better understanding of business ethics can come from any quarter and therefore publishes scholarship rooted in the humanities, social sciences, and professional fields.
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