Humans as “meta”-beings
Meta-interpretive, meta-ethical and meta-technical
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22355301 |
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| Authors | Hans Lenk (0000-0003-2910-3671, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 47-58 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Techno Humanities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2664-3294 • E-ISSN: 2667-3614 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.techum.2022.07.005 |
| OpenAlex | W4292413777 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Humans are meta-level beings - meta-interpretative, meta-ethical and meta-technological. In many respects they are able to use abstract concepts, symbols conceived on and for higher (meta-)levels. This is apparently an epistemological necessity for generalizing in any cognitive, ethical, practical, scientific and technological area. Here the humanities come in: indispensably they are interpretative disciplines dependent on signs, object- and meta-language as well as (meta-)theories. All that is true also for technologies and industry where notorious problems of responsibility are to be met - an all-too-human focus of moral(s) and meta-ethics - The article presents a tour d'horizon of the author's methodological “scheme interpretationist” from “going meta-level” as a hallmark of humanity through humanitarian ethics towards applied responsibility problems in technology and a techno-humanistically interpreted society
Cognition · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Humanity · Meta-analysis · Political science · Sociology · Law · Medicine · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations · Philosophy · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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