Technology and Art

在我们的当代世界，技术似乎有一种暴力的力量，人类不再能够控制它，人类被自我毁灭所束缚。我们对19世纪的人们没有更乐观的看法，他们相信通过技术的无休止进步来实现幸福。在这种情况下，伦理原则对技术的控制是不可避免的。但我们的研究试图从另一个角度来解决这个问题。我们看到了一个奇妙的事实，那就是技术和艺术最初是同一件事，在希腊世界被同等地称为“创造力”。这种思想继续通过中世纪自由主义的阿尔特斯传统而盛行，直到文艺复兴。从这一时期起，人类这两种主要活动的结合被割裂了，一方面，技术越来越成为人类对自然自治领的工具，这是人类傲慢自大和自我毁灭的表现;另一方面，艺术则成为人类寻求最后安息和慰借的同情和同化的态度。我们的研究以各种方式追踪了“诗意”的发展。但我们的结果是，虽然艺术肯定能给我们提供最后的安慰，但它不能给技术一个指示，它应该如何表现。这一重要作用应赋予道德操守。

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.