Modern Technology, Preventive Ethics, and the Human Condition:

REFERENCES

1- Elliott, DavidUniqueness, Individuality, and Human Cloning . Journal of Applied Philosophy 15 (3): 217–230, 1998.

2- Jonas, Hans.The Imperative of Responsibility: In Search of an Ethics for the Technological Age . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.

3- Kaczynski, Theodore.The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society & Its Future . Jolly Roger Pr. 1995.

4- Kant, Immanuel:Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals , trans. H.J. Paton, Harper & Row, NY, 1964.

5- Kurzweil, Ray:The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence . New York, Viking, 1999.

Notes

1- Jonas, Hans. The Imperative of Responsibility: In Search of an Ethics for the Technological Age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [^1984]: P.1. Jonas’s ideas were first published as an article: “Technology and Responsibility: Reflections on the New Tasks of Ethics,” Social research 40, no.1(1973): pp 31-54. This article was later published as a part of the book mentioned above. From this point on throughout my paper, I will be referring to the book. On page 4, Jonas summarized the characteristics of previous Ethics and traditional theories: 1. All dealing with the non-human world, i.e., the whole realm of techne (with the exception of medicine), was ethically neutral. 2. Ethical significance belonged to the direct dealing of man with man. Including the dealing with himself: all traditional ethics is anthropocentric. 3. for actions in this domain, the entity “man” and his basic condition was considered constant in essence and not itself an object of reshaping techne. 4. The good and evil about which action had to care lay close to the act, neither in praxis itself or in its immediate reach, and were not a matter for remote planning.

2- Ibid. P[^18]:

3- Theodore Kaczynski in his book “The Industrial Society and Its Future”

4- Ray Kurzweil: The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence. New York, Viking, [^1999]:

5- Jonas, Hans. The Imperative of Responsibility: In Search of an Ethics for the Technological Age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [^1984]: Ibid, p. 7.

6- Ibid. P.[^8]:

7- Ibid. P.[^11]:

8- Ibid. P.[^11]:

9- Ibid. P.[^11]:

10- Ibid, P.[^12]:

11- Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, trans. H.J. Paton, Harper & Row, NY, 1964, p. [^102]:

12- David Elliott: “Uniqueness, Individuality, and Human Cloning,” p224 For further discussion