Technology and Ethics; Human and Non-human

—— The Ical Considerations of Clara and the Sun in the Criticism of Literary Ethics

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10.2991/978-2-38476-265-1_29How to use a DOI?

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Clara and the Sun; literary ethical criticism; ethical dilemma; ethical choice; identity; sksven factor

Abstract

Clara and the Sun is the magnificent work of Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro. The novel opens the story with the memories of AF robot Clara. This paper is based on the human background, the Clara and the sun in the literary ethics criticism, analyze the absolute dual identity of Clara, and ethical subject construction, interpretation of Clara face “agreement”, “alternative” and “sacrifice” three times ethical dilemma and ethical choice, reflects the dazzling human factor and human human factor shrinking human factor. With the rapid development of science and technology, there are also many unstable factors, which make the limitations of human social ethical order increasingly prominent. The author integrates the dystopian colors into the text, and considers the three major problems of the post-human era: the entanglement between science and technology and ethics, the harmonious coexistence of man and non-man, and the fading of the light of human nature. The wave of artificial intelligence represented by Sora and C h atGPT has swept the world. How to balance the conflict between science and technology and ethics, how to deal with the relationship between people and non-people, and how to deal with the ethical challenges of contemporary society have become an urgent proposition for the academic circle to answer. On the basis of enriching the research category of literary ethics criticism, this paper tries to explore the solution to the post-human ethical dilemma, and provide valuable reference for the construction of the ethical order of human society.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Wenzhuo Dong
AU  - Yongliang Ge
AU  - Xiaodan Chen
AU  - Qian Yang
AU  - Lifang Yu
AU  - Wenqing Yang
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/07/18
TI  - Technology and Ethics; Human and Non-human
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Language, Art and Cultural Exchange (ICLACE 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 236
EP  - 245
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-265-1_29
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-265-1_29
ID  - Dong2024
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