TECHNOPHOBIA IN PHILOSOPHY

• Published in: Naucnyj zurnal Kubanskogo gosudarstvennogo agrarnogo universiteta pp. 675 - 691
• Main Authors: Spasova N. E, Vasiljeva A. S
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kuban State Agrarian University 29.04.2016
• Subjects: HUMANITY; PERSON WEIGHT; RATIONALITY; TECHNOLOGY; TECHNOPHOBIA; THINKING
• ISSN: 1990-4665; 1990-4665

The article is devoted to the analysis of positions of some philosophers who negatively estimate a role of equipment in human lives and societies. It discusses the philosophical concepts of E. Yunger, F. Yunger, M. Heidegger, K. Jaspers, etc. Besides, the authors of this article address to A. Schopenhauer, F. Nietzsche, M. Makklyuen's heritage. In this work it is shown as methods of formalization and symbolization in science are transferred to areas of humanitarian knowledge and spiritual life, impoverishing them, turning "the understanding thinking in estimating". Calculation becomes a sign of the mechanized reality in which education, work, household submit also to the principles of mechanization. Extrapolation of mechanics to all the spheres of human existence leads to destruction of the humanistic principles: the world as mechanical system is the world where one element can be replaced with another where each part represents only object for studying and manipulation. In the article we also describe tendencies of transformation of people into masses on the basis of the rational estimating tradition of Modern times. Thus, in this work the problems menacing to the essence of "human" are being put and the message for further searches of the way of permission of the question of dehumanization in connection with technical development is formulated, when it is impossible to refuse it completely