EE 295 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Virtue Ethics, Albert Borgmann, Technocracy Movement
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We ended last week"s notes with a few ideas drawn from. Chpts 3 & 6 and will begin week 9 with yet a few more. Feenberg"s idea of instrumentalization refers to the process of taking ideas as instruments and plans for action, as gestures and means whereby we take up with the reality of colonization and contextualization. Pi requires decontextualization / reduction / autonomatization / positioning. Si requires concretion or systematization / mediation / vocation. Together pi and si resonate with the cartesian method. Neil postmann suggests a relevant distinction: tool-using (pre-modern) technocracy (modern) technology affects the human lifeworld technopoly (hypermodern) technology effects the human lifeworld (the technocracy movement is a social/political movement that started in the us in the 1920s. Albert borgmann maintains that as we cross the postmodern. Divide we can choose between hyper-modernism and post- modern realism (focal engineering): t. hall distinguished between high and low context cultures and languages.
