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Our methods of inquiry predetermine most of what we are able to know. While our modes of understanding ought to correspond to the complexities confronting us in our modern technological society, they do not. “Soft” systems methodology helps us focus on what is problematic and how it can be approache...

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1. VerfasserIn: King, Jonathan B. (VerfasserIn)
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Veröffentlicht: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 1994
In: Journal of business ethics
Jahr: 1994, Band: 13, Heft: 4, Seiten: 243-257
weitere Schlagwörter:B Technological Society
B Basic Issue
B Moral Control
B System Methodology
B Economic Growth
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Zusammenfassung:Our methods of inquiry predetermine most of what we are able to know. While our modes of understanding ought to correspond to the complexities confronting us in our modern technological society, they do not. “Soft” systems methodology helps us focus on what is problematic and how it can be approached — and offers direction to exert moral control over our tools and technologies., [Powerful new technologies] pose basic threats to people and to life on Earth . . . Unless we learn to live with them in safety, our future is likely to be both exciting and short. We cannot hope to foresee all the problems ahead, yet by paying attention to the big, basic issues, we can perhaps foresee the greatest challenges and get some idea of how to deal with them (K. Erik Drexler, 1986).
ISSN:1573-0697
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/BF00871671