A Reflection on the Paradox of Technological Risk in the Context of Modernity

doi:10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2007.04.009

Abstract

Abstract:

In the development of modernity human beings are encountering with a problem of technological risk.The technology risk is a latency technology calamity, and the technology calamity is an embodiment of technology risk.The technology risk is not abnormal.The technological system's close combination and complex correlation determine inevitability of technological risks.The dualistic thinking confining to modernity will lead to an epistemological cycle, and the reflection on a technological risk in terms of assumptions of the conception on nature behind technological practice will open up a new vision.

Key words: technology, nature, risk, modernity

CLC Number:

B82-05

Cheng-gang ZHANG. A Reflection on the Paradox of Technological Risk in the Context of Modernity[J]. Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences), 2007, 39(4): 32-38.

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