Ethically structured processes : thinking world-scale responsibility / Virgil Cristian Lenoir.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lenoir, Virgil Cristian, author.

Series:

Interdisciplinarity, science and humanities series. Innovation and responsibility set ; volume 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics--Philosophy.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

London : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, [2019]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Whilst research and innovation may allow for increasing efficiency in the pursuit of human ends, they also pose dangers, linked to the unpredictability of their development, which call for unprecedented responsibility. This book contends that the structure of a "process", in the sense of an efficient propensity in the possible that can be actualized by research and innovation, can be intrinsically ethical, that is, it can take into account and preserve the freedom of the actors concerned. This point is explored through a consideration of four processual ethical structures, each of which can constitute a point of reference for the exercise of a responsibility. Ethically Structured Processes questions dualities that are very firmly established in the West, such as "theoretical/practical" and "descriptive/prescriptive", through a detour into historical Chinese traditions of thought. The generality of the thesis concerning ethical processes is tested, in a privileged way, on the case of the "Invisible Hand". Is this notion based on a philosophically and ethically consistent concept of "freedom"?

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781119616061

1119616069

9781119616177

1119616174

OCLC:

1198933472