Ethics as a Beneficial Trojan Horse in a Technological Society.
This article explores the transformation of ethics in a globalizing technological society. After describing some basic features of this society, particularly the primacy it gives to a special type of technical rationality, three specific influences on traditional ethics are examined: (1) a change co...
| Publicado en: | Science & Engineering Ethics Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 13 - 27 |
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