Technology and Art

在我们的当代世界，技术似乎有一种暴力的力量，人类再也无法控制，人类面临着自我毁灭的威胁。19世纪的人们相信通过技术的不断进步可以实现幸福，我们对他们的看法再乐观不过了。在这种情况下，技术必然受到伦理原则的制约。但我们的研究试图用另一种方法来解决这个问题。我们看到了一个不可思议的事实，即最初的技术和艺术是同一件事，在希腊世界同样被称为“poiesis”。这种观念在中世纪的自由艺术传统中一直盛行到文艺复兴时期。从这个时候开始，这两种主要的人类活动的结合被分裂了，一方面，技术越来越倾向于成为人类统治自然的工具，这是人类傲慢和人类自我毁灭的表现，另一方面，艺术成为对自然的同情和同化态度，人类寻求找到他最后的休息和安慰。我们的研究以不同的方式追溯了“poiesis”的发展。但是我们的结论是，虽然艺术肯定能给我们提供一种最后的安慰，但它不能指示技术应该如何表现。这个重要的角色应该托付给伦理。

In our contemporary world, technology seems to have a violent power over which human being is no more able to have a control, and from which human being is threatend with self-destruction. We have no more optimistic view of the 19th century people who believed in the realization of hapiness by the endless progress of technology. In this situation, it is inevitable for technology to be controled by ethical principle. But our research tried to have an another approach to this problem. We looked to the marvelous fact that originally technology and arts were the same thing and were called equally 'poiesis' in the Greek world. This idea continues to prevail through the tradition of artes liberales of medieval age untill renaissance. From this time on, the union of these two main human activities were split, and on the one hand, thechnology tended to become more and more the instrument of human dominion over nature which was an expression of human arrogance as well as of human self-destruction, and on the other hand, arts became asympathetic and assimilating attitude with nature where human being sought to find his final rest and consolation. Our research traced in various ways this development of 'poiesis'. But our result is that, while art can surely afford one of the final consolation to us, it cannot give an indication to technology how it ought to behave. This important role should be entrusted to ethics.