Does Technology Help Us To Live More Rewarding And Meaningful Lives?
Name: Howard Rennis
Course: Philosophy 1D03E
T.A.: David Rondel
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Assignment number: 2
Word count: 1679
Date: March 30, 2005
“Technology might be described as a further step in applied science by means of the improvement of instruments”{4}. Technology was developed initially to conquer/subdue the environment (non-human nature) as a means of allowing man to live a more comfortable life. Technological development was driven by the Protestant liberal ethic of the eighteenth century Europeans who utilized their new scientific knowledge to develop instruments to subdue non-human nature. Liberalism at that time meant the freedom and right of man to determine his own future without any predetermined limitations on man’s nature and capacity rooted in the traditional conception of values and the notion of a higher purpose of man.
In the modern period when......
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