Les enjeux culturels de la détermination technoscientifique de l'humain

Abstract

Today, technoscientific innovations are at the foundation of the development of human societies. Indeed, the modern techniques and sciences that have shaped our world, more precisely contemporary culture, are indisputably the basis of emergence. With the rise of technoscience, culture has undergone an unprecedented revolution. It now accommodates itself to technoscientific rationality. Moreover, it is important to note that culture, marked by permanent paradigmatic changes, would to some extent generate the scientific and technical logic that dominates our world. This means that culture produces and is the product of technoscience. This is why the data and representations that constitute it are thought in the light of technoscientific discourse. Anthropology, for example, is declined under the terms of flexibility, contrary to its fixed meaning of yesteryear. More simply, in the contemporary cultural perspective, the human is the expression of a nature that is not characterized by immutability. However, this anthropological approach, which rhymes with technical rationality, leads to the robotization and desacralization of the human, in addition to the fact that it lays the foundations for a technologically determined world. This is why techno-scientific development, although favorable to the emergence of a flourished and evolved humanity, must be the subject of philosophical reflection. This is the problem underlying our research work. To this end, technological effort leads to the accomplishment of man. It sufficiently provides for needs and allows it to overcome its natural defects through the increase of its cerebral and biophysical capacities. Thus, technoscientific culture constitutes an unstoppable vector of the mastery of the living, and at the same time, a compass in the integral progress of humanity.