The Great Reversal : : How We Let Technology Take Control of the Planet /

The Great Reversal : : How We Let Technology Take Control of the Planet / / David Tabachnick.

Every day, we are presented with new technologies that can influence human thought and action, such as psychopharmaceuticals, new generation performance enhancing drugs, elective biotechnology, and gastric bypass surgery. Have we let technology go too far in this respect? In The Great Reversal, Davi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Tabachnick, David,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]
©2012
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (200 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Aristotle’s Warning
  • 1. Finding and Enforcing Limits
  • 2. Phronesis vs. Techne
  • 3. The Decline of Good Judgment
  • 4. The Rise of Technical Knowledge
  • 5. After the Great Reversal
  • 6. Responses to the Great Reversal
  • 7. Virtue in a Technological Age
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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