现代技术的伦理困境与技术时代的道德相对主义幽灵

随着形上世界的崩溃,现代技术的迅速发展和扩张使现代人不可避免地被卷进了技术大潮的漩涡中,人类社会由此进入了技术统治的贫乏时代。在这个思想贫乏的技术时代,以信息技术、生物技术、医疗技术等为代表的现代技术已经逐步渗透到人类生活的各个领域并且不断冲击着现代人脆弱的道德底线。与技术突飞猛进形成鲜明对比的是,人类在运用技术的过程中不断遭遇伦理困境。现代技术的伦理困境深刻影响着现代人的道德世界观,突显了道德的相对性和主观性,从而为道德领域中的相对主义倾向提供了孳生的土壤和蔓延的空间。 

The Ethical Dilemma of Modern Technologies and Moral Relativism in the Age of Technology

With the collapse of the Metaphysical world,the rapid development and expansion of modern technologies make people inevitably involved in the technological tide.As a result,human beings entered an age dominated by technology.In this age,modern technologies such as information technology,biotechnology and medical technology have pervaded all the fields of social life and are impacting the weak moral baseline of the moderns.In contrast with the rapid development of modern technologies,man continually encounters ethical dilemmas in the employment of them.The ethical dilemmas of modern technologies have a deep effect on the moral worldview of the moderns.Such dilemmas reveal the relativity of the morality and give rise to the spread of moral relativism.