Brassington Iain
CSEP, School of Law, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK.
Med Health Care Philos. 2007 Jun;10(2):185-95. doi: 10.1007/s11019-006-9016-4. Epub 2006 Nov 1.
This paper examines medicine's use of technology in a manner from a standpoint inspired by Heidegger's thinking on technology. In the first part of the paper, I shall suggest an interpretation of Heidegger's thinking on the topic, and attempt to show why he associates modern technology with danger. However, I shall also claim that there is little evidence that medicine's appropriation of modern technology is dangerous in Heidegger's sense, although there is no prima facie reason why it mightn't be. The explanation for this, I claim, is ethical. There is an initial attraction to the thought that Heidegger's thought echoes Kantian moral thinking, but I shall dismiss this. Instead, I shall suggest that the considerations that make modern technology dangerous for Heidegger are simply not in the character - the ethos - of medicine properly understood. This is because there is a distinction to be drawn between chronological and historical modernity, and that even up-to-date medicine, empowered by technology, retains in its ethos crucial aspects of a historically pre-modern understanding of technology. A large part of the latter half of the paper will be concerned with explaining the difference.
本文从受海德格尔技术思想启发的视角审视医学对技术的运用。在论文的第一部分，我将对海德格尔关于该主题的思想提出一种解读，并试图说明他为何将现代技术与危险联系在一起。然而，我也将指出，几乎没有证据表明医学对现代技术的应用在海德格尔所指的意义上是危险的，尽管乍一看没有理由认为它不会是危险的。我认为，对此的解释是伦理方面的。人们最初会觉得海德格尔的思想呼应了康德的道德思想，但我将摒弃这种观点。相反，我将指出，使现代技术对海德格尔而言具有危险性的那些考量，并不存在于正确理解的医学的特质——即医学精神之中。这是因为需要区分年代学上的现代性和历史性的现代性，而且即使是借助技术力量发展起来的当代医学，在其精神中仍保留着对技术的一种历史上前现代理解的关键方面。论文后半部分的很大篇幅将致力于解释这种差异。
