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• Author: Michel Puech 

The Ethics of Ordinary Technology

Table contents:

1 An Introduction to Technoethics
1.1 Why Ethics About Technology and How?
Modernity/Technology
From Philosophy of Technology to Technoethics
The Agency of Artifacts
The Pragmatic Ethical Turn
Embedded Values in Technology
1.2 Ethical Paradigms and the Question of Technology
The Twentieth-century Crisis in Moral Philosophy
Applied Ethics
Pragmatism in Ethics
Ethics vs. Politics
Technoethics vs. Patronization
1.3 Methods for Technoethics in the Ordinary
Practical Wisdom vs. Sterile Scholasticism
A Quick View of the Ordinary
Inspirations and Methods
An Ethics of Wisdom
References
2 Technosapiens The Coevolution of Nature, Humankind, and Technology
2.1 The Naturality of Technology: Human Nature
Philosophical Anthropology and Moral Anthropology
From the Naturality of Technology to the Primacy of Ordinary Technology
The Human Natural Technosphere
Human Flourishing in the Technosphere
The Worst Technoethical Paradigm: Natural vs. Artificial
The Second Worst Technoethical Paradigm: Transhumanism
2.2 Technology as the Third Insider
New Stakeholders in Ethics: Nature, Technology
Three Teleologies
Non-autonomous Technology
The Darwinian Logic of Coevolution
2.3 The Present Stage and the Potential for Coevolution
From Coevolution to Harmony
Presentology and not Futurology
The Promise of Technology
Laws and Super-laws of Coevolution
The Technosphere Revolution
Ubiquitous Mediation
Ecological Consciousness
Hybrid Ethics (Ordinary)
2.4 Human Threads in the Coevolution Braid
The Human Agent: We Are It
Affirming Human Values
Progress and Loss
How Better? Flourishing and Dwelling
References
3 Ordinary Technologies and Ethical Significance
3.1 The Ordinary in Contemporary Life
Philosophy of the Ordinary
It is an Ordinary World
Ordinary Technology Familiarity
Immersed into the Digital, Surrounded by the Smart
3.2 The Ethical Importance of the Ordinary
The Ordinary as Ethical Commitment
Disregard for the Ordinary: Modernity as Dereliction
The New Ethical Importance of the Ordinary
Use, Affordance, Commodification
3.3 Awareness and Ordinary Virtue
Awareness as a Virtue
Stupidification and Resistance
Ordinary Wisdom
3.4 Care for Artifacts and Ordinary Attachment
Bonding with Artifacts
Caring for Artifacts
Attaching to Artifacts
References
4 The Self in the Age of Pervasive Technology
4.1 The Return of the Self
The Self as Project in Modernity
The Ethical Turn
Beyond Poiēsis: Praxis
4.2 Self-care and Consistence
New Beginning in Care
From Care to Self-care
Self-care and Human Value
Consistence
4.3 Resources of the Self
From Industrial to Digital Modernity: The Digital Self
Constructive Attitudes
Flow and Access
Self-governance and Generativity
4.4 The Good Life in Ordinary Technology
Refocusing the Good Life on the Ordinary Technosphere
Meta-literacy, Meta-empowerment
Ordinary Values for the Good Life in the Technosphere
Health as Self-care in Technological Affluence
Self-realization
References
5 Deep Sustainability and Personal Microactions
5.1 Extended Meanings for Sustainability
Ethical Sustainability
A New Political Sustainability
Acceptability: Societal Sustainability
Sustainable Use
5.2 Microactions: Post-political and Post-institutional Engagement
The Concept of Microaction
Voluntary Simplicity
Collaborative Microactions
The Limits of Politics and Institutions
Post-institutional and Post-political Action
Resistance, Resilience, Self-reliance
5.3 Inclusive Ordinary Technology
Theory of Inclusive Technology
The Question of Design
The Soft Power of Inclusion
Forced Inclusion: Hacking and Piracy
References
6 Ordinary Wisdom in the Technosphere
6.1 Which Wisdom
Wisdom, but Practical
An Alternative Framework for Modernity
6.2 Ordinary Engagement
Engagement as a Value and a Wisdom Value
The Ordinary as Engagement: Zen Meditation and Samu
Meta-engagement
Exercise
6.3 Practices of Wisdom in the Ordinary Technosphere
Awareness: The Beginning of All Wisdom
Autonomy: Waging Invisible Moral Wars
Harmony: Appreciative and Active Skills
Humility: The Real Strength
Benevolence: Realizing Non-duality
Courage: The Missing Resource
6.4 Existential Virtuosity for the Contemporary Self
Virtuosity
Desirable Acquired Conditions: Serenity, Authenticity, Consistence
Desirable Acquired Capacities: Integrity (Honesty), Generosity, Resistance
Necessary Sensitivities: Compassion, Empathy, Aversion to Violence
Ethical Skills: Non-confrontation, Non-violence, Frugality (Temperance)
Useful Practices: Meditation, Life Hygiene, Bodily Maintenance
A Final Word on Sapiential Technoethics

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