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Technology and Human Rights

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Technology has been essential for man’s life at every moment of history; even under the most favorable climatic and geographic conditions man needs at least some techniques, if only to take into his possession and use the goods of nature. Man is a being of lacking (“Mangelwesen”), who for mere survival cannot but make use of his technological capabilities; he does not possess the same natural equipment that enables animals to live immediately on natural resources; the advantage of man and the condition of continuous progress in comparison to the rather firmly fixed animal behavior are man’s reason and his capability of verbal communication, which allow him to pass the tradition of what has once been learnt from generation to generation.

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Huning, A. (1983). Technology and Human Rights. In: Durbin, P.T., Rapp, F. (eds) Philosophy and Technology. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 80. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7124-0_4

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