荷兰学派道德物化观点溯源

The Origin of the Dutch School’s Idea of Moralizing Technology

本文主要介绍了荷兰学派道德物化观点的起源。近年来国内有关荷兰学派道德物化研究日趋火热。但学界的注意力主要集中在介绍佛贝克的物化观点,未能把握道德物化概念的源头活水。因此也未充分理解道德物化作为一种哲学而非实践策略的传统所在。本文介绍了道德物化概念提出者汉森·阿克特豪斯的技术哲学观。通过对其思想的梳理进一步廓清了道德物化提出的社会情境和哲学理路。道德物化的哲学企图指向一个人/物关系的新解,而在实践上则强调道德行为的经验知识积累,重视研究人在物的境遇下的意志活动的形成发展。在操作上则特别提倡人在物的设计和布置中保持规范性自觉,通过物的创制和布置来实践重要的公共善。

This article discusses the very origin of the Dutch School’s idea of"Moralizing Technology"(MT).Current discussion on MT focuses almost exclusively on introducing theory of Peter-Paul Verbeek,and yet fails to trace the history of such a idea.This article directly discusses how Hans Achterhuis,the professor who is often referred to as the earliest promoter of MT,developed this idea with heavy influences from various thinkers.The idea of MT aims to explore a novel understanding of man-thing relationship with a aim to partly outsource our moral burdens to the artifacts.