IMPLICATIONS OF THE TECHNIQUE OF EXISTENCE [TECHNISIERUNG DES DASEINS] IN HANNAH ARENDT AND HANS JONAS
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Hannah Arendt, Hans Jonas, Politics, Ethic, Technification of Existence [Technisierungdes Daseins]Abstract
The present article aims to analyze the implications of the modern technique that make human existence technically possible. Our analysis is based on the works of Hannah Arendt and Hans Jonas, establishing a dialogue between the two. Through the numerous stages of development of technique and technology, from the seventeenth century onwards we perceive a dependence and subordination of human beings to technology. This threatens the freedom and human integrity of future generations, and confers on a totally postmodern phenomenon that we will call technification of existence [Technisierungdes Daseins], coined by Arendt in July 1954, in his dairy, Denktagebuch. In these terms, we will first analyze how Hannah Arendt understands such phenomena, presenting the steps of technique and technology, its consequences, and what there is political output; in a second moment, from the perspective of Hans Jonas, we will explore the author's contributions on the effects of technology in contemporary society, and explain how his ethical principle of responsibility has the capacity to restrain technological impulses. Finally, after these analyzes, we can affirm that only a policy and an ethics aimed at human interests, are able to face the dangers contained in technology and to safeguard humanity.
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