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This 4 page paper provides an overview of the views of Hans Jonas, Peter Senge and Goran Carstedt regarding technological change and ethics. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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to restructure our economic thinking in light of the immense challenges that have come with technological change. Assessing whether Senge and Carstedts restructuring of economic thinking meets Jonas criteria
for the radical restructuring of ethical perspectives, though, requires an understanding of the conflicts and challenges that have occurred and the outcomes of modern ethics. In his "Ethics for
a Technological Age," Hans Jonas argued "Modern technology, informed by an everdeeper penetration of nature and propelled by the forces of market and politics, has enhanced human power beyond anything
known or even dreamt of before. It is a power over matter, over life on earth, and over man himself; and it keeps growing at an accelerated pace" (as cited
by Sewitz, 1997). Essentially, Jonas suggests that the technological age is based on a radical departure from all that mankind has experienced in the past (Sewitz, 1997).
As a result, traditional ethics, which were based on the presumption that the effects of our actions were limited, did not apply in the same manner to the newly devised
technological society (Sewitz, 1997). Senge and Carstedt (2001) argue that the industrial age has ushered in a period of economic focus, one that focuses on social
capital and harvesting resources to create financial gains. Technology has simply been devised in order to promote further economic development in this manner. They further argue that a
number of movements have suggested some changes in the way in which the postindustrial age has addressed basic economic conditions, including the introduction of things like ecoefficiency (Senge and Carlstadt,
2001). At the same time, it can be argued that these elements are not the kind of radical readjustment suggested by Jonas as a necessary component of the postindustrial
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