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Nano-ethics is dedicated to exploring into the ethical and social significance of nanotechnology and currently has gone from the predication and control discourse of futurism and consequentialism into the dimension of practical exploration oriented by the reflexive co-evolution of technology and society. However, nanotechnology is to establish microscopic nano-space on atomic level after all and therefore it tends to be detached from man’s intuition. This requires an integration of nanotechnology into human experience through the phenomenological strategy of visualization so that the optional flexibility of technology hermeneutics is offered to stakeholders. Meanwhile, technical operation on atomic level indicates the gathering of both intentional and non-intentional subject clusters on nano-scale. So, one systematic and stable development of multi-subject clusters should be realized ontologically, which contains construction of nano-world of natural science and engineering and accepts the participation of nano-world design of “natural social science”. Only in this way, can we make nanotechnology socially and ethically healthy by the co-evolution of technology and society.
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Li, S. (2020). Three Dimensions of Nano-ethics. In: Wang, Q. (eds) Chinese Philosophy of Technology. Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, vol 34. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1952-9_11
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