This-essay is a8402101.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %ETHICAL AND MORAL TECHNOLOGIES 840210 Scientists who become concerned regarding the social implications of their activities are likely to perceive them in terms of ethical and moral issues. Often people have sought to resolve such issues by the development of prescriptions which specify what behavior is proper in given contexts. Sometimes the prescriptions have been rather absolute with little consideration to the particulars of contexts. More sophisticated prescriptions attempt to give consideration to different contexts and prescribe proper behavior carefully in terms of the particulars of various contexts. Such efforts, however, are prone to become technical exercises which glorify technology more than personal and communal integrity. Too often ethical and moral technologies have become tools used by the righteous as the grounds for rejecting people who are regarded as threatening to conventional propriety. Thus ethical and moral technologies become the tools used by those served by the present status quo, to maintain the status quo. Those who have power --- use ethical and moral technologies to consolidate and increase their power. Such use of ethical and moral technologies undermine personal and communal integrity. Most moral and ethical technologies are used in ways which generate alienation and estrangement --- because of rejections occasioned by judgments of failure to live up to specialists' moral and ethical standards for proper behavior. Technicians who become concerned with the moral and ethical implications of their technical work are likely to try to deal with those implications in a technical way. They are likely to try to develop moral and ethical technologies to deal with the inappropriate affirmations of instrumental values and the technologies which flow from such values. Moral and ethical technologies are ill suited for dealing with the alienation which the moral and ethical technologies themselves occasion. They are unable to deal creatively with the way in which all technologies are prone to threaten personal and communal integrity, because they themselves are technologies. Technicians are not qualified to help restore integrity which has been destroyed by technicians who were insensitive to the importance of personal and communal integrity. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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