Author : Alessandro Tomasi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351295462
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)
Book Synopsis Turning Toward Technology by : Alessandro Tomasi
Download or read book Turning Toward Technology written by Alessandro Tomasi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in an age when the dominant technologically utilitarian worldview is undergoing a transformation. To increase our awareness of this change, Turning Toward Technology introduces readers to the possibility of an alternative technological worldview by examining foundational concepts to Asian thought. The early Eastern philosophical treatment of technology was not ethical, but ontological, exhibiting sensitivity to how human existence was defined and determined in its relation to technology and to reality as a whole. Within the Eastern cultural orientation, technological development was guided by a singular aesthetic sensibility to the useful, the good, the beautiful, the true, and the holy. Instead of controlling the shape of future technology by systems of rational management, George Teschner and Alessandro Tomasi recommend a view of technology that arises from questioning fundamental assumptions within Western culture about knowledge, reality, and human nature. Turning Toward Technology aims to stimulate awareness of an alternative technological paradigm, and thus a different mode of social action that can establish an optimistic future for global civilization.