Nihilism and the Problem of Future: Biodiversity Destruction As One of the Great Dangers of Technology?
Starting from the example of the Amazon, in Brazil, we intend to analyse how technology (mainly in its biotechnological face) appears as a threat to biodiversity, insofar as it acts through a reduction and standardization: technology needs to reduce diversity to something knowable to be able to cont...
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| description | Starting from the example of the Amazon, in Brazil, we intend to analyse how technology (mainly in its biotechnological face) appears as a threat to biodiversity, insofar as it acts through a reduction and standardization: technology needs to reduce diversity to something knowable to be able to control and exploit, in view of human necessities. In this sense, according to Hans Jonas, it is necessary to ask about the horizon of the future giving preference to the negative prognosis (fear rather than hope) to avoid that the harmful consequences of nihilism (marked by the absence of criteria capable of guiding technological action) affect life decisively. In this case, the Enhancement project proposed by transhumanism appears as yet another chapter in the history of risks represented by modern technology. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b239944f59e44871830789b9fb2fc1cf2022-12-21T20:16:15ZdeuAdam Mickiewicz UniversityEthics in Progress2084-92572017-05-018110.14746/eip.2017.1.911519Nihilism and the Problem of Future: Biodiversity Destruction As One of the Great Dangers of Technology?Jelson Oliveira0Pontifical Catholic University of ParanaStarting from the example of the Amazon, in Brazil, we intend to analyse how technology (mainly in its biotechnological face) appears as a threat to biodiversity, insofar as it acts through a reduction and standardization: technology needs to reduce diversity to something knowable to be able to control and exploit, in view of human necessities. In this sense, according to Hans Jonas, it is necessary to ask about the horizon of the future giving preference to the negative prognosis (fear rather than hope) to avoid that the harmful consequences of nihilism (marked by the absence of criteria capable of guiding technological action) affect life decisively. In this case, the Enhancement project proposed by transhumanism appears as yet another chapter in the history of risks represented by modern technology.http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/eip/article/view/12037biodiversitybiotechnologynihilismHans Jonas |
| spellingShingle | Jelson Oliveira Nihilism and the Problem of Future: Biodiversity Destruction As One of the Great Dangers of Technology? Ethics in Progress biodiversity biotechnology nihilism Hans Jonas |
| title | Nihilism and the Problem of Future: Biodiversity Destruction As One of the Great Dangers of Technology? |
| title_full | Nihilism and the Problem of Future: Biodiversity Destruction As One of the Great Dangers of Technology? |
| title_fullStr | Nihilism and the Problem of Future: Biodiversity Destruction As One of the Great Dangers of Technology? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Nihilism and the Problem of Future: Biodiversity Destruction As One of the Great Dangers of Technology? |
| title_short | Nihilism and the Problem of Future: Biodiversity Destruction As One of the Great Dangers of Technology? |
| title_sort | nihilism and the problem of future biodiversity destruction as one of the great dangers of technology |
| topic | biodiversity biotechnology nihilism Hans Jonas |
| url | http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/eip/article/view/12037 |
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