As transformações do conceito de responsabilidade com a era tecnológica

Abstract

The research had as goals the inquiry of the historical evolution and the purposes of the responsibility concept, as well as the reflection concerning the possibilities of ethical limitation of the technological development from the ethics of the responsibility. Since its appearance in modernity, the responsibility idea is characterized as an ethical element that certifies the freedom of the individual and affirms the moral objectivity. If we understand the responsibility in this horizon, we can conclude that it is underlying to this concept the idea of a possible regulating measure of the ethical community. That is, the responsibility appears as a measure for the acting, being a form to contain the satisfaction of the own interest face to the recognition of the strange’s interest. This means that the hedonist practicals of the modern individual are submitted to the measure of acting configured by the responsibility, turning the empirical actions into ethical actions. However, with the technological developme