传统的技术伦理学通常站在技术活动之外,对技术后果进行伦理反思和批判;而内在进路的技术伦理学则把目光投向技术活动之中,考察如何在技术设计中嵌入某种道德要素,使技术人工物能够在使用过程中引导、调节人的行为,以实现一定的道德目的。这种“道德的物化”的研究范式,对于发挥技术伦理的实际效用有着重要意义。
The traditional ethics of technology usually takes critical reflection on the ethical consequences of technol- ogy from the outside of the technological activities, while the internalist approach focuses on the technological activi- ties itself,investigating how to embed some kind of moral elements into the technical design ,with the aim of reali- zing the moral purpose by guiding and regulating human being' s behaviors when they use artifacts. This research paradigm of "materializing morality" is of great importance for ethics of technology to take an actual effect in the re- al world.