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The Techoethical Ethos of Technic Self-Determination: Technological Determinism as the Ontic Fundament of Freewill

The Techoethical Ethos of Technic Self-Determination: Technological Determinism as the Ontic Fundament of Freewill

Francesco Albert Bosco Cortese
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 31
ISBN13: 9781522550945|ISBN10: 1522550941|EISBN13: 9781522550952
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5094-5.ch005
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Cortese, Francesco Albert Bosco. "The Techoethical Ethos of Technic Self-Determination: Technological Determinism as the Ontic Fundament of Freewill." The Changing Scope of Technoethics in Contemporary Society, edited by Rocci Luppicini, IGI Global, 2018, pp. 74-104. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5094-5.ch005

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Cortese, F. A. (2018). The Techoethical Ethos of Technic Self-Determination: Technological Determinism as the Ontic Fundament of Freewill. In R. Luppicini (Ed.), The Changing Scope of Technoethics in Contemporary Society (pp. 74-104). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5094-5.ch005

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Cortese, Francesco Albert Bosco. "The Techoethical Ethos of Technic Self-Determination: Technological Determinism as the Ontic Fundament of Freewill." In The Changing Scope of Technoethics in Contemporary Society, edited by Rocci Luppicini, 74-104. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5094-5.ch005

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Abstract

This chapter addresses concerns that the development and proliferation of human enhancement technologies (HET) will be dehumanizing and a threat to our autonomy and sovereignty as individuals. The chapter argues contrarily that HET constitutes nothing less than one of the most effective foreseeable means of increasing the autonomy and sovereignty of individual members of society. Furthermore, it elaborates the position that the use of HET exemplifies—and indeed even intensifies—our most human capacity and faculty, namely the desire for increased self-determination, which is referred to as the will toward self-determination. Based upon this position, the chapter argues that the use of HET bears fundamental ontological continuity with the human condition in general and with the historically ubiquitous will toward self-determination in particular. HET will not be a dehumanizing force, but will rather serve to increase the very capacity that characterizes us as human more accurately than anything else.

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