Edition: 2023
Pages: 192
Series: AC
ISBN: 9788858151471
Pages: 192
Series: AC
ISBN: 9788858151471
Technosophy. Towards a new science
The most powerful drug available to humans is technology, and the most powerful technology is the capital. The alliance between technology and humanism can empower this capital for the benefit of all, transforming it into a heritage of humanity.
The more technology and humanism know how to interact, the more mankind will positively plough the road to progress. This is the idea that inspires this book, a collaboration between a philosopher and a technologist. Both, in fact, promote a positive judgement of technology because if it is true - following the Greek etymon - that it is both a poison and a remedy, it is undeniable that technological capacity belongs to humanity from its origins. And therein lies the capacity to preserve and multiply the value of its material and cultural assets for the benefit of future generations.
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Maurizio Ferraris
Maurizio Ferraris isone of the most well-known Italian philosophers. He teaches Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Turin and he is president of Labont (Centre for Ontology). He directs ‘Scienza Nuova’, the institute of advanced studies that unites the University and the Polytechnic of Turin in the design of a sustainable future. Visiting professor at Harvard, Oxford, Munich, Paris, columnist for “Corriere della Sera” and “Neue Zürcher Zeitung”, author of successful tv programmes and over sixty books translated worldwide, he is the founder of the “New Realism”. Among his publications for Laterza: Documentalità. Perché è necessario lasciar tracce (2009); Mobilitazione totale (2015); Documanità. Filosofia del mondo nuovo (2021); Manifesto del nuovo realismo (n.e. 2022) and, with Guido Saracco, Tecnosofia. Tecnologia e umanesimo per una scienza nuova (2023).
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