W świecie współczesnej techniki – w stronę etyki odpowiedzialności

Abstract

The world has changed. This very poetic statement is certainly a truism. However, one only needs to think of this change in a qualitative sense, and this graceful sentence becomes truly profound. In ancient and pre-modern times, life did not, change very frequently. It was mainly determined by nature and a social circumstances. The pace of technological development over the last two centuries, however, has been constant in its acceleration. Moreover, what is equally significant, man’s natural environment began to change and lose its natural character. Being surrounded by more and more technical devices became “natural”. One may risk making the metaphorical claim that technology has supplanted its nature. About this “change” and its influence on man’s ethical actions, about possible evaluation of this change and about the place that ethics will have (or should have) in the new system treats the following text.