一种工程的生活是否值得人类去过?

Is an Engineering Life Worth Living for Humans?

工程的哲学人类学首先区分了工程师们的那种工程的生活方式和非工程师们的那种工程化的生活方式。将工程生活纳入哲学人类学的主题,可以引出三个基本论点。第一个论点是,工程不仅仅是一项专业性的活动,还是一种独特的生活方式。第二个论点是,工程的独特生活方式正在影响着人们的日常事务。第三个论点是,就像任何生活方式一样,这种工程的生活方式也应该被审视。原初轴心时代的伟大思想家们意识到,人们未必要接受其生来所处和被社会化了的人类世界,而在新轴心时代,人们也未必要接受生来所处和被社会化了的工程世界。

The philosophical anthropology of engineering begins with the distinction between the engineering way of life for engineers and the engineered way of life for non-engineers. In taking the engineering life as a theme for philosophical anthropology, this paper puts forth three fundamental theses. The first thesis is that engineering, beyond being a professional activity, is a distinctive way of life. The second thesis is that its distinctive way of life is now infecting everyday affairs. The third thesis is that this way of life, like any way of life, deserves to be examined. The great thinkers in the Original Axial Age recognized that we do not need necessarily to accept the human world into which we are born and socialized, while in a New Axial Age, we do not need necessarily to accept the non-human world into which we are born and socialized.