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Recent philosophy of technology examines the way that our technologies form the background, context, and medium for our lives, shaping our culture and the environment, altering patterns of human activity, and influencing who we are and how we live. If there is a single, over-arching theme to recent philosophy of technology, it is the attempt to find a balance between the technical and social aspects of technology. If the narrowly construed “instrumental” meaning of technology understands it only terms of technical properties, techniques, and precise knowledge, the broader (and more accurate) understanding of technology includes the full range of cultural, economic, political, and legal dimensions – in addition to technical factors – that form the technological character of a society.

--- David M. Kaplan, Paul Ricoeur and the Philosophy of Technology. Journal of French Philosophy
Volume 16, Numbers 1 and 2, Spring-Fall 2006.

He[Ricoeur] derives this initial ethical understanding of institution from Arendt’s concept of “power in common” that is contrasted with domination (“power over”) and that is realised by a plurality of people acting in concert. ...

Because acting in concert with unknown third parties needs time to unfold, institutions are needed. Institutions thereby provide the neces- sary temporal dimension for the power in common to endure, which lies at the basis of any political community. ( Read more... )

--- Reijers, Coeckelbergh. Narrative and Technology Ethics.

In this respect, good institutions bridge time, i.e. form social infrastructure the same water reservoirs form physical infrastructure. Need to find a related quote from Hegel that good judges/courts represent infinity.

Ricoeur’s argument regarding selfhood proceeds through a sequence of stages. He begins from the philosophy of language and the question of an identifying reference to persons as selves, not simply things. This leads to consideration of the speaking subject as an agent, passing through the semantics of action Ricoeur had learned from analytic philosophy during his time in North America. Next comes the idea of the self as having a narrative identity which is then is followed by the question of the ethical aim of being such a self. This hermeneutics of selfhood culminates in the conclusion that one is a self as one self among other selves, something that can only be attested to through personal testimony or the testimony of others. Selfhood is thus closely tied to a kind of discourse that says “I believe-in”. Its certainty is a lived conviction rather than a logical or scientific certainty.( Read more... )

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ricoeur/

The implication would be that when it comes to self neither logic, nor science applies. Instead, [narrative] art, including gossip, fills this self-space.

-- Reijers, Coeckelbergh, 2020.

...the hierarchy of praxis that Ricoeur presents are (1) practices, (2) life plans and (3) narrative unity of life.

--- Wessel Reijers, Mark Coeckelbergh. Narrative and Technology Ethics.

So far, the AI community, esp. its business leaders, has failed to address these three essential narratives of praxis for people outside of the community itself. If you are a truck driver, there's nothing for you in the AI-powered future. By contrast, the web, the iPhone and even social networks accomplished the task very well.

Opposed to the Cartesian notion of the self, Ricoeur posits a notion of the self as indirect, which characterises hermeneutics as a philosophy of “detours”...

...according to Ricoeur... A human does not find herself having immediate, direct access to a world, using language as a layer on top of this world to refer to it. Instead, her experience and understanding of the world are mediated through lan- guage and can therefore only be understood by means of a detour through language, involving aspects such as symbols, metaphors and narrative.
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For both Simmel and Ricoeur, therefore, humans are intermediate beings whose access to the world, to others, and to themselves, is in each case mediated.

--- Wessel Reijers, Mark Coeckelbergh. Narrative and Technology Ethics.

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