The Eclipse of Reason - A Present Time Risk
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https://doi.org/10.7336/academicus.2024.30.01Abstract
This paper contends that technical progress, from automation in industry to artificial intelligence, might involve the risk of a humanly impoverished society. Instrumental values could overcome final values and determine the end of meaning.
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progress, technology, reason, development, eclipse, intelligence,Downloads
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Ferrarotti, Franco. Science - For What?, Solfanelli, Chieti, 2019.
Ferrarotti, Franco. Substantive Reason versus Total Bureaucracy, Solfanelli, Chieti, 2023.
Ferrarotti, F. (2014). Technical Change and Social Revolution. Academicus International Scientific Journal, special, 08-27. https://doi.org/10.7336/academicus.2014.special.02
Ferrarotti, Franco. “The Eclipse of Religion and Freud’s “future of an illusion”.” Academicus International Scientific Journal, vol. 29, 2024, pp. 10-20., https://doi.org/10.7336/academicus.2024.29.01.
Ferrarotti, Franco. The Myth of inevitable Progress, Greenwood, Westport, Conn., 1985.
Horkheimer, Max. “Eclipse of Reason (New York, 1947).” Critique of Instrumental Reason (New York 1974).
Snow, Charles Percy. The two cultures and the scientific revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1962.
Waddington, Conrad Hal. The scientific attitude. Routledge, 2017.
Weintraub, Karl Joachim. The value of the individual: Self and circumstance in autobiography. University of Chicago Press, 1978.
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