The Eclipse of Reason - A Present Time Risk

• Authors: Franco Ferrarotti

Abstracts

EN

This paper contends that technical progress, from automation in industry to artificial intelligence, might involve the risk of a humanly impoverished society. Instrumental values could overcome final values and determine the end of meaning

Keywords

EN

progress; technology; reason; development; eclipse; intelligence

• Publisher: Academicus. International Scientific Journal publishing house
• Journal: Academicus. International Scientific Journal
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 30
• Pages: 11-19

Dates

published

2024

Contributors

author

Franco Ferrarotti

• Prof. Emeritus of La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.
• Founder "Critica Sociologica".

• https://orcid.org/0000000349645371

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Identifiers

DOI

10.7336/academicus.2024.30.01

Biblioteka Nauki

38452797