Abstract

Our age has often been called "an age of technology." However, somewhat ironically, our philosophy, as the crystallization of the spirit of any age, has done little to study the issues of technology, and its understanding of technology itself is very superficial. The reason is not that there are no philosophical questions worth investigating in technology, or that the technological mode of thought is not worth reflecting upon from the angle of philosophy. Rather, as some Western philosophers have pointed out, the fundamental reason for philosophy's neglect of technology lies in that people have "mistakenly assumed that technology is too far removed from the elegant realm of thought and ideology" ([1], p. 219).