The Nature of Technology - Analysed from The Perspective of The Anthropological Subject

ChengYu Feng; Liang  Dai

doi:10.5281/zenodo.14566201

Authors

ChengYu Feng University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Liang Dai University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14566201

Keywords:

philosophy of technology; marxism; productive forces and relations of production; nature of man; Ernst Karp

Abstract

The essence of technology is at the same time the essence of man. Ernst Karp and Karl Marx are great philosophers in the same period, who successively formed a distinctive philosophy of technology and view of technology in their understanding of the concept of technology in terms of technological ontology, technological evolution and society, culture and state. On the basis of analyzing and comparing the differences between Karp's and Marx's views on technology in terms of technological ontology and technological epistemology, this paper follows the dialectical way of thinking and finds that Karp's view of technology is narrow in terms of the existence of isolation and mechanicity. Marx's view of technology, on the other hand, explains the relationship between society, technology, and productive forces in a discourse led by holistic thinking, and ultimately puts human beings in the link of purpose and power of technological development for dynamic examination.

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