Kasra Hatam Pouri; Mohammad reza asadi
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This paper discusses the moral system in Rene Descartes’ thoughts. First, it will be shown that Descartes has undeniable ethical concerns even if we refuse to accept his systematic and coherent moral theory and, more precisely, that he has an independent book in moral philosophy. For instance, ...
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This paper discusses the moral system in Rene Descartes’ thoughts. First, it will be shown that Descartes has undeniable ethical concerns even if we refuse to accept his systematic and coherent moral theory and, more precisely, that he has an independent book in moral philosophy. For instance, in several works he hints at or affirms various principles based on which we can attribute a moral theory to him. Next, we will refer to the nature and structure of Descartes' moral theory. For this purpose, we explain our own interpretation of his moral beliefs and its fundamental elements as we study and criticize other points of view. During the discussion, we will briefly touch the categorization of his moral philosophy in relation with recent classifications in this area. As we will see, it has four fundamental elements: virtue, science, limited knowledge and happiness are four fundamental elements that we think Descartes' ethics containing them and without one of them our interpretation of this issue will be incomplete or even wrong.
mohammad reza asadi; mohammad mehdi musavi mehr
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Heidegger is one of the earliest thinkers who, in technology, studied the existential status of technology, its dominant gist, and its relation to the modern science and art. This articles aims to show a more precise image of Heidegger's "nature of technology" and present a more ...
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Heidegger is one of the earliest thinkers who, in technology, studied the existential status of technology, its dominant gist, and its relation to the modern science and art. This articles aims to show a more precise image of Heidegger's "nature of technology" and present a more proper assessment on the pessimistic or optimistic quality of his philosophy of technology. Heidegger believes that the "nature of technology" is not technical in any way. He passes over the instrumental meaning of technology and seeks an understanding of the "nature of technology" through Greek culture. Therefore, it introduces the concept of technology on the basis of a special interpretation of causality that is based on aletheia. Upon this basis, the modern technology is aletheia, but not the best and the most original aletheia of existence, because it aims to change the universe, rather than to elucidate, interpret and define it. Though the"nature of technology" cannot be meaningful without reference to man and his relation to the universe, such an aletheia dominates human being and controls him. The solution for human is to have a free relation to technology. This understanding of the nature of technology proves that Heidegger is not against technology, but he argues that it should not cause our negligence.
