当代信息技术的若干政治哲学问题

Some Contemporary Issues on Political Philosophy Concerning Information Technology

信息技术具有一定的政治功能,当代信息技术更是深刻地影响着今天的人类政治世界,造成了许多新的政治现象和政治的新特征,包括新的阶级的形成,新的自由和平等、民主的前景,国际政治的新格局,以及政治管理模式的改变。但这种影响是否可形成一种技术决定论的解释,以及这种影响是否只具有单向性以及是否一定会导向民主政治、专家治国,还有信息富人和政治强人之间的关系是什么,如此等等,提出了一系列政治哲学问题,也呼唤着信息技术政治学的产生。

It is certain that IT,i.e.,information technology,performs a special political role in the world nowadays.Human political world is often affected deeply by the continuously developed IT which cause many new political characters and phenomena,such as the formation of new classes,new types of political rights to freedom,equality and democracy,new patterns of international politics and the changes in political administration mode.Some issues are therefore to be discussed,e.g.,whether the IT influence on politics can be interpreted as the basis on which the technology determinism is tenable;whether the IT influence is just unidirectional;whether the IT influence will certainly lead up to democracy and technocracy and which relation will be established between IT billionaires and power politicians.A series of the issues of political philosophy comes to light,which call the IT politics into being.