Science, Technology, and Virtues

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
And Behavior

What makes for a good scientist or a good engineer? How does using a new technology or working in a research lab begin to shape our thought and behavior? How can we best anticipate and navigate the ethical dilemmas created by modern scientific research and technology? Scholars across multiple disciplines have begun turning to a surprising resource to address these questions: discussions of virtue that have their roots in ancient philosophical and religious traditions. This volume gathers a number of these perspectives to show how concepts of virtue can help us better understand, construct, and use the fruits of modern science and technology.

Science, Technology, Autonomy, and Dependence: A Framework for International Debate

1979 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 387-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ward Morehouse
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
International System ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
The Third ◽  
The North ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
The Third World

In the past 30 years, the role of science and technology in the international system has changed markedly. Science and technology have emerged as primary instruments of power and social control, with the major industrialized countries, especially the superpowers, relying more and more on science and technology as a means of maintaining their dominance in that system. Notwithstanding beachheads of technological competence and scientific excellence in the Third World, the technological gap between the North and the South has widened during this period because of the near-monopoly that a few industrialized countries have acquired on the generation and productive use of new technology based on modern science. Development strategies, relying on importation of capital-intensive, socially inappropriate, environmentally destructive Western technologies, cannot but lead to a massive global equity crisis in the 1980s. These technologies have been at the heart of the accelerating de-industrialization of the Third World by the First and Second Worlds on a scale far beyond what occurred in historical colonialism. The critical need is to focus the debate, at the forthcoming world conferences dealing with science, technology and development, on these underlying issues, leading to the formulation of concrete action proposals at the national and international levels which will effectively promote the technological autonomy of the Third World. While we cannot be certain that greater autonomy will lead to greater equity, few Southern countries can go very far in meeting the minimum material needs of most, not to speak all, of their people without a greatly strengthened autonomous capacity for creating, acquiring, adapting and using technology to solve their own urgent economic and social problems.

scholarly journals Representation of Science, Technology, and Memory of Postwar Japan in Japanese Anime

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Firman Budianto
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Postwar Japan ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Forms Of Life ◽  
Great Sense ◽  
The Way

This research discussed the debates over the development of science and technology in postwar Japan portrayed in Tetsujin 28 anime. Most of the notable anime produced in Japan during 1940s to 1980s were closely related with the memory of wartime, as well as the development of science-and-technology. Tetsujin 28, as one of the anime engaged with the memory of postwar Japan, however, had an interesting storyline representing the debates over development of new technology at the period. By using John Fiske’s semiotics analysis, this qualitative research discussed the way Tetsujin 28 initially created by Mitsuteru Yokoyama (1934-2004) represented postwar Japan, as well as the interface between human and new technology developed during the period. The finding shows that postwar Japan represented in this anime is filled with a great sense of optimism in the middle of modernization. Japan is facing the prosperity era whose development is based on science and technology. Furthermore, the existence of Tetsujin 28 and other robotics technology can be seen as a representation of risk following the development of science and technology. On the other hand, the interface between the robot and human being depicted in this anime, in turn, will pave the way for new forms of life and hope for the prosperous nation.

scholarly journals SCIENTIFIC THINKING: THE BACKBONE OF MODERN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 761-762
Author(s):  
Andris Broks
Keyword(s):  
Technology Education ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Science And Technology Education ◽  
Education Today ◽  
Life Phenomena

Science and Technology Education (STE) along with Artistic and Pragmatic Education today is continuously and fast developing branch of education to satisfy actual needs of modern life. It follows the development of scientific research of real life phenomena and implementation of corresponding results in practice. In other words, changes within our life are closely connected with corresponding changes in our education, because educational activities of any person as well as society in total mean specially organized gaining of life experience (knowledge, values, skills) for life (cognition, consideration, behaviour).

The Application of Modern Information Technology in Competitive Sports

2014 ◽  
Vol 989-994 ◽  
pp. 5053-5056
Author(s):  
Bo Xiao
Keyword(s):  
New Technology ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Competitive Sports ◽  
Productive Force ◽  
Modern Information Technology ◽  
Social Modernization ◽  
Sports Skills

Science and technology is the first productive force. The development of the society and the rapid development of science and technology have brought great push to the economy and social development. By means of computer and the Internet for information transmission, high and new technology and the emergence of a multidisciplinary scientific research such as modern science and technology become our milestones of the contemporary social modernization. Current new revolution of science and technology will further accelerate the process of modernization of competitive sports and have great influence on the development of sports skills. Modernization of competitive sports has become the inexorable historical trend. Therefore, modern science and technology plays a very important role in sports.

scholarly journals Cultural Trends In Development Of Science And Technology In Indonesia And The Role Of Philosophy To Overcome It (Pancasila In Action)

2020 ◽  
Vol 202 ◽  
pp. 07059
Author(s):  
Iriyanto Widisuseno
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Heuristic Method ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Basic Framework ◽  
The One ◽  
And Behavior

Indonesian society is currently experiencing a cultural shift as an influence of the development of modern science and technology. The aim of this study reveals the phenomenon of cultural shifting of Indonesian society and to build a philosophical strategy to overcome the problem. Through qualitative descriptive explorations a posteriori method can identify and describe the symptoms of cultural change of society, to obtain a map of changes in socio-cultural values of the community. The philosophical synthetic heuristic method helps to show how the quality and relation of the object must be sought, giving way to the reconstruction of the basic frameworks of the existence of science. The results show that the development of science and technology today, on the one hand has facilitated the various needs of human life, but on the other hand has a negative impact on changes in thinking patterns, attitude and behavior of people who tend towards the development of practical, pragmatic and hedonistic . This problem arises because the development of science and technology increasingly separated from the basic framework of the existence of science, namely; ontology, epistemology and axiology. The development of science and technology needs to be directed back to the development model that puts Pancasila as the vision and orientation of strengthening the basic framework of the existence of science as a whole.

Status of Domestic Enterprises Electromechanical Integration and Development Trend

2013 ◽  
Vol 753-755 ◽  
pp. 1952-1955
Author(s):  
Qing Mei Jia ◽  
Wei Zhi Wang ◽  
Hui Jing Wang
Keyword(s):  
New Technology ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Development Trend ◽  
Development Prospect ◽  
Enterprise Development ◽  
Basic Premise ◽  
Modern Enterprise

Electromechanical integration is the inevitable result of the development of modern science and technology, and the basic premise and the inevitable trend of modern enterprise development. The use of new technology enterprises of electromechanical integration determines the position and development prospect of the enterprise in the competition.

Spectacular Science, Technology and Superstition in the Age of Shakespeare

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Renaissance Literature ◽  
Science And Literature ◽  
Early Modern Science ◽  
Dialectical Approach ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Modern Perspective

Back in the late 1950s, C.P. Snow famously defined science negatively by separating it from what it was not, namely literature. Such polarization, however, creates more problems than it solves. By contrast, the two co-editors of the book have adopted a dialectical approach to the subject, and to the numerous readers who keep asking themselves “what is science?”, we provide an answer from an early modern perspective, whereby “science” actually includes such various intellectual pursuits as history, poetry, occultism, or philosophy. Each essay illustrates one particular aspect of Shakespeare’s works and links science with the promise of the spectacular. This volume aims at bridging the gap between Renaissance literature and early modern science, focusing as it does on a complex intellectual territory, situated at the point of juncture between humanism, natural magic and craftsmanship. We assume that science and literature constantly interacted with one another, making clear the fact that what we now call “literature” and what we choose to see as “science” were not clearly separated in Shakespeare’s days but rather part of a common intellectual territory.

Redefining the Miraculous: al-Ghazālī, Ibn Rushd and Said Nursi on Qur'anic Miracle Stories

2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 86-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isra Yazicioglu
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology ◽  
Natural Order ◽  
Human Knowledge ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Sacred Texts ◽  
Ibn Rushd ◽  
Heated Debate ◽  
Indirect Confirmation ◽  
Said Nursi

Miracle stories in sacred texts have been a source of both fascination and heated debate across religious traditions. Qur'anic miracle stories are especially interesting because they are part of a discourse that also de-emphasises the miraculous. By looking at how three scholars have engaged with Qur'anic miracle stories, I here investigate how these narratives have been interpreted in diverse and fruitful ways. The first part of the article analyses how two medieval scholars, al-Ghazālī (d. 505/1111) and Ibn Rushd (d. 595/1198), engaged with the implications of miracle stories. Taking his cue from miracle stories, al-Ghazālī offered a sophisticated critique of natural determinism and suggested that the natural order should be perceived as a constantly renewed divine gift. In contrast, Ibn Rushd dismissed al-Ghazālī’s critique as sophistry and maintained that accepting the possibility that the natural order might be suspended was an affront to human knowledge and science. In the second part, I turn to Bediuzzaman Said Nursi (1870–1960), whose interpretation offers a crystallisation of al-Ghazālī’s insights as well as, surprisingly, an indirect confirmation of Ibn Rushd's concerns about human knowledge and science. Nursi redefines the miraculous in light of miracle stories, and interprets them as reminders of ‘everyday miracles’ and as encouragements to improve science and technology in God's name.

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