A MORALIZAÇÃO DOS ARTEFATOS

UMA REVISÃO CRÍTICA DA ÉTICA HUMANISTA ATRAVÉS DA ÓPTICA PÓS-FENOMENOLÓGICA DE PETER-PAUL VERBEEK

Abstract

Don Ihde's post-phenomenology significantly advances studies in the philosophy of technology, equating science and technology (technoscience), establishing a symmetrical relationship between humans and non-humans (thus materially sensitive), and reflecting on the concrete character of artifacts. Ihde's inter-relational ontology carries the assumption that both human microperception (immediate and personal) and macroperception (cultural and historical) are embodied in artifacts, mutually shaping each other. If artifacts are intertwined in our existence, could it be said that they possess morality? Peter-Paul Verbeek draws from Ihde’s post-phenomenology this implicit reflection, from which another problem needs to be addressed: is humanist ethics, which considers consciousness and freedom as criteria for action, sufficient for the moral reflection of contemporary societies? This paper aims to expose the moralization of technology proposed by Verbeek, from which an amodern ethics is derived in the current context of technological societies.