Is the technical a factor of dehumanization?
Abstract
It is often assumed that technical development carries a risk of dehumanization. In its most popular versions, this thesis is presented as the danger that the human being will be replaced by machines or end up enslaved by them or perhaps merged with them. What I maintain here is that the technical is in the core of the human, and that only the inappropriate uses and interpretations of the technical and of the properly human can produce dehumanization. Curiously, the risk of dehumanization comes from a disoriented anthropology rather than from the technical itself. Guided by this idea, I try to outline the meaning of a properly human life, as well as the position of the technical at its service. I suggest, finally, that an attitude of serenity towards the technical, propitiated by practices such as the so-called technological silence, supposes an adequate antidote against the mentioned risk of dehumanization.
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