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Area of Science:

  • Ethics and Technology
  • Philosophy of Engineering

Background:

  • Technological enthusiasm (TE) significantly shapes engineering, technology development, and human lifestyles.
  • Existing research on TE is limited, with a prevailing view that it is commendable.
  • A recent consequentialist perspective posits TE as morally neutral.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To challenge the consequentialist view of technological enthusiasm (TE) as morally neutral.
  • To introduce a new perspective questioning both the commendation and neutrality of TE.
  • To explore the application of virtue ethics in evaluating the moral implications of TE.

Main Methods:

  • Presentation of three arguments against the consequentialist neutrality of TE.
  • Introduction of a novel argument challenging TE's commendation and neutrality.
  • Application of virtue ethics to analyze TE as a character trait, virtue, or vice.

Main Results:

  • Arguments are presented that undermine the idea of TE being morally commendable or neutral.
  • A virtue ethics framework is proposed for evaluating TE.
  • Three arguments are advanced to classify TE as a vice rather than a virtue.

Conclusions:

  • The paper argues that technological enthusiasm (TE) is a vice, not a virtue.
  • Virtue ethics offers a more effective framework than consequentialism for evaluating TE.
  • This study highlights the utility of virtue ethics in complex ethical evaluations where utilitarianism falls short.