第四讲：

象、道德感与礼：

一个儒家的技术哲学

 Lecture Four：

 Images, Moral Feelings, and Rites: Engaging Confucianism with Philosophy of Technology

Speaker主讲人：Wang Xiaowei 王小伟

 Moderator主持人：Dennis Schilling 谢林德

Date日期: 10.9，2024

Time时间：18:00-19:30

Place地点：Room 1605, The First Public Teaching Building 公一1605

About the speaker:

Wang Xiaowei is an Associate Professor at the School of Philosophy, Renmin University of China, holding a PhD in Philosophy from Utrecht University, Netherlands. His recent work includes “A Study of Alan Gewirth's Moral Philosophy”, and he is the co-editor of “Harmonious Technology: Confucian Ethics of Technology”(with Pak Hang Wong). He currently serves as Executive Director of the Chinese Society for Dialectics of Nature and Chair of its Youth Work Committee, as well as Secretary-General of the Beijing Society for Dialectics of Nature. His research focuses on the philosophy of technology and the ethics of science and technology.

Abstract:

Technology is increasingly prominent as a topic of philosophical and normative reflection, as the recent technological advancements in areas such as artificial intelligence and climate technologies have demonstrated their capability to disrupt our existing social, political, and moral practices. Recently, there is a call to diversify philosophy of technology, a field which has so far largely failed to engage with philosophical traditions outside US and Europe. While there is an increasing number of works that have attempted to answer the call, they are primarily attempts to apply normative values and/or frameworks of specific philosophical and cultural traditions. These works have not delved extensively into the questions of technology in these philosophical and cultural traditions; in particular, they have yet to explore how these philosophical and cultural traditions conceive and construct human-technology relations, namely how human and technology are—and, should be—related. This paper distinguishes itself from other attempts to apply normative values and/or frameworks of specific philosophical and cultural traditions. Our aim is to offer a Confucian view of human-technology relations through reviving three Confucian ideas in early Confucianism, namely Creating Qi from the Images (ZhiqiShangxiang 制器尚象), Evoking Moral Feelings through Things (YiguXingwu 以故興物) and Embedding the Rites into Qi (Cangliyuqi藏禮於器). Constructing human-technology relations in the Confucian perspective will offer us an account of how Confucianism sees technology (co-)shaping our perception of and action in the world; and, it can also provide us alternative ways to consider technology’s normative implications.