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Article: Technology and responsibility: reflections on Genesis 1-3.
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- Judaism
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- September 22, 1996
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Should the emancipation and secularization of the modern age, which began with a turning-away, not necessarily from God, but from a god who was the Father of men in heaven, end with an even more fateful repudiation of an Earth who was the Mother of all living creatures under the sky?
- Hannah Arendt(1)
Technology and responsibility are not among the most common themes associated with the creation and Eden myths of Genesis. They are, however, inescapable themes of contemporary life: what we take our responsibilities to be in exercising our power to shape the earth, now amounts to deciding whether life on this planet will flourish or die. Yet, in the face of ...