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The Gifford Lectures have challenged our greatest thinkers to relate the worlds of religion, philosophy, and science. Now Ian Barbour has joined ranks with such Gifford lecturers as William James, Carl Jung, and Reinhold Neibuhr. In 1989 Barbour presented his first series of Gifford Lectures, published as Religion in an Age of Science. In 1990 he returned to Scotland to present his second series, dealing with ethical issues arising from technology and exploring the relationship of human and environmental values to science, philosophy, and religion and showing why these values are relevant to technological policy decisions.
In examine the conflicting ethics and assumptions that lead to divergent views and technology, Barbour analyzes three social values: justice, participatory freedom, and economic development. He defends such environmental principles as resource sustainability, environmental protection, and respect for all forms of life. He present case studies in agriculture, energy policy, genetic engineering, and the use of computers. Finally, he concludes by focusing on appropriate technologies, individual life-styles, and sources of change: education, political action, response to crisis, and alternative visions of the good life.
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IN AN AGE OF
TECHNOLOGY
The Gifford Lectures
19891991
Volume 2
CONFLICTING VALUES
VIEWS OF TECHNOLOGY
HUMAN VALUES
ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES
CRITICAL TECHNOLOGIES
AGRICULTURE
ENERGY
COMPUTERS
TECHNOLOGY AND THE FUTURE
UNPRECEDENTED POWERS
CONTROLLING TECHNOLOGY
NEW DIRECTIONS
Ethics in an Age of Technology
Barbour complements theory with practice, continuing the genius for comprehensive and sure-footed synthesis and criticism he has shown for the last half-century. Facing the new millennium, few questions or none are more important than whether and how technology can be put to increasingly moral uses, protecting human and environmental values. Few analyses are more important than Barbours.
HOLMES ROLSTON, III, author of Science & Religion
and Environmental Ethics
Brings to the most important topics in Barbours earlier work, Technology, Environment, and Human Values , important new foci on computers, genetic engineering, and nuclear weapons, as well as an updated discussion of energy, environmental degradation, population, and the debate over values. [Barbour] brings to this intensely researched and eminently fair analysis his own paradigm of human and environmental liberation rooted in a Biblical faith perspective. Together with volume 1 of his Gifford Lectures, Ethics is surely the culmination of one of the most extraordinary careers of the twentieth century. As physicist, philosopher, theologian, ethicist, environmentalist, technologist, worshiper in the Biblical tradition, Ian G. Barbour embodies the best of the twoand the twentyworlds he spans. If there is a paradigm for the relationship between science and religion, its exemplar is Barbour.
ROBERT JOHN RUSSELL, founder and director,
The Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, Berkeley
First Series, 198990
RELIGION IN AN AGE OF SCIENCE
Reissued in 1997 in a revised and expanded edition as
Religion and Science: Historical and Contemporary Issues
Second Series, 199091
ETHICS IN AN AGE OF TECHNOLOGY
Unless otherwise noted, all scriptural quotations are from the Revised Standard Version, 1946 and 1952 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A.
ETHICS IN AN AGE OF TECHNOLOGY: The Gifford Lectures Volume 2 . Copyright 1993 by Ian G. Barbour. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this ebook on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins ebooks.
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FIRST EDITION
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Barbour, Ian G.
Ethics in an age of technology / Ian G. Barbour.1st HarperCollins ed.
(The Gifford lectures, 198991, v. 2)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. TechnologyMoral and ethical aspects. 2. TechnologyReligious aspectsChristianity. 3. Appropriate technology. I. Title. II. Series: Gifford lectures; 19901991.
BJ59.B37 1993
170dc20 91-59045
04 05 RRD H 10
EPub Edition JANUARY 2013 ISBN: 978-0-0622-7567-7
To Deane
It was a great pleasure to return to the University of Aberdeen to give this second series of Gifford Lectures. I am grateful indeed for the hospitality of members of the Philosophy Department and the Faculty of Divinity, especially Robin Cameron, Nigel Dower, David Fergusson, and Michael Partridge.
I am deeply indebted to the people who subsequently read a draft of the manuscript and offered suggestions for revising it: Deane Barbour, Nigel Dower, Frederick Ferr, Edward Langerak, Carl Mitcham, Robert Russell, and Roger Shinn. Helpful comments on individual chapters came from Gene Bakko, John Barbour, Peter Hartel, Chuck Huff, Roger Kirchner, Ernest Simmons, and Norman Vig.
Many of the topics considered here were discussed in courses and seminars in the program in Science, Technology, and Public Policy at Carleton College. The insights of students and faculty colleagues from a wide range of disciplines contributed to the formulation of several of these chapters. Earlier versions of portions of chapters 1, 2, 3, and 9 were presented in my Technology, Environment, and Human Values (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1980).
In response to the joy of months shared in Aberdeen, and a life shared for forty-five years, this volume is dedicated to Deane.
CARLETON COLLEGE
NORTHFIELD, MINNESOTA
ABM | Antiballistic Missile |
AEC | Atomic Energy Commission |
AI | Artificial Intelligence |
AT | Appropriate Technology |
CBA | Cost-Benefit Analysis |
CFCs | Chlorofluorocarbons |
CO | Carbon Dioxide |
DOE | Department of Energy |
DNA | Deoxyribonucleic Acid |
EC | European Community |
EPA | Environmental Protection Agency |
GNP | Gross National Product |
ICBM | Intercontinental Ballistic Missile |
IPM | Integrated Pest Management |
IT | Intermediate Technology |
LDC | Less Developed Country |
LGU | Land-Grant University |
LWR | Light Water Reactor |
NAS | National Academy of Sciences |
NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
NIH | National Institutes of Health |
NPT | Nonproliferation Treaty |
OECD | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
OPEC | Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries |
OTA | Office of Technology Assessment |
PC | Personal Computer |
PCBs | Polychlorinated Biphenyls |
PV | Photovoltaic |
R & D | Research and Development |
SALT | Strategic Arms Limitation Talks |
SDI |
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