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Title

Moral dimension of man in the age of computers / Adam Drozdek.

Author

Drozdek, Adam.

Publication

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, ©1995.

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Details

Description

158 pages; 21 cm

Summary

Reason has very often been seen as the highest faculty of man and, therefore, a strong tendency to attempt to analyze man mainly in terms of the rational dimension exists. This tendency was strong in antiquity and was given renewed attention in the seventeenth century. In recent times, developments and advancements in computer science have given the notion renewed scientific support. In this tradition, man is not only analyzed in terms of rational faculties, but is often reduced to them. The philosophical conclusions drawn from computer science strengthen the view that man's highest faculty is reason. This work argues that this view of man is limited and insufficient because man is primarily a moral being, and the rational dimension is only instrumental in the developing and in exercising what is most important in man: the moral dimension.

Subject

• Human beings
• Ethics
• Philosophy and science
• Ethics
• Humans
• Homo sapiens (species)
• ethics (philosophy)
• Human beings
• Philosophy and science
• Ethik
• Mensch
• Technisches Zeitalter
• Wissenschaftsethik
• Moraal
• Kunstmatige intelligentie
• Computers
• Morale
• Philosophie et sciences

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

1. Moral Dimension of Man and Artificial Intelligence -- 2. Moral Dimension of Man and Animal Rights -- 3. Moral Dimension of Man and Philosophy -- 4. Moral Dimension of Man and Psychology -- 5. Moral Dimension of Man and Education.

ISBN

• 0819199834
• 9780819199836
• 0819199842
• 9780819199843

LCCN

95016818

OCLC

• ocm32590770
• 32590770
• SCSB-2063275

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library