Vol. 1 No. 1 (2024)

Research Articles

Comparison of Marx's and Karp's Philosophical Views: What is Technology?

Published 2024-12-16

  • Chengyu Feng

Chengyu Feng
University of Electronic and Science of China

Abstract

The essence of technology is at the same time the essence of man. Ernst Karp and Karl Marx are great philosophers in the same period, who successively formed a distinctive philosophy of technology and view of technology in their understanding of the concept of technology in terms of technological ontology, technological evolution and society, culture and state. On the basis of analyzing and comparing the differences between Karp's and Marx's views on technology in terms of technological ontology and technological epistemology, this paper follows the dialectical way of thinking and finds that Karp's view of technology is narrow in terms of the existence of isolation and mechanicity. Marx's view of technology, on the other hand, explains the relationship between society, technology, and productive forces in a discourse led by holistic thinking, and ultimately puts human beings in the link of purpose and power of technological development for dynamic examination.

Keywords

Philosophy of Technology, Marxism, Productive Forces and Relations of Production, Nature of Man, Ernst Karp

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