信息技术史与“三重洞穴”说——论信息时代的哲学前景

The History of Information Technology and the “Triple Cave”:On the Prospect of Philosophy in the Information Age

柏拉图笔下的洞穴可以称为口语信息技术支撑的"第一洞穴",现代人借助印刷信息技术建造了"第二洞穴",信息时代又借助电子信息技术建造了虚拟的"第三洞穴",它们构成了哲学的现实处境。从中我们发现:人类越来越远离自然,而哲学也越来越失去她的超越品性,从"第一洞穴"的超越者变成为了"第二洞穴"的立法者,最后变成"第三洞穴"的解释者。哲学的洞穴化就是对根本性问题的遗忘,它是未来哲学面临的最根本挑战。

The Cave in Plato＇s Republic can be called The First Cave which was based on the Spoken language information technology, and the mod- em people build The Second Cave by print information technology, and people in information age build The Third Cave by Electronic Information Technology, they constitute the reality of the situation of philosophy. From which we find： The human being getting far away from the nature, and the philosophy lose its transcendence, from the transcendeneer of The First Cave to the legislator of The Second Cave, and finally to the interpreters of The Third Cave. Losing its transcendence and belonging to the cave is the most fundamental challenge to the future philosophy, because it forget the fundamental question of the human being.