汉斯·伦克(HansLenk,1935-),当代德国著名哲学家,被称为科技伦理的“集大成者”、“引起德国技术哲学的伦理转向”以及“最早注意到技术的责任和伦理问题”的哲学家。在科学技术伦理领域,伦克的突出贡献是对“责任”进行了分类:1)划清了技术人员和科学工作者的内在责任与外在责任的界限,即区分了道德与伦理;2)区分了不同层次的各种责任类型:如同通常把普遍的责任分为道德责任和法律责任一样,他把行为责任分为任务责任和角色责任;3)探讨了共同责任的分配问题;4)对机构责任和法人责任进行了分析;5)针对责任中的冲突问题拟定了十个基础性的优先原则;6)科学和技术伦理作为职业伦理的特例。
Hans Lenk is a famous philosopher in the present age. He is called "authority" in field of ethics of science and technology, and philosopher "who leading philosophy of technology in Germany turning to ethics of technology and who first caring for responsibility and ethics of technology". Lenks outstanding achievement in field of ethics of science and technology is his work on the typology and differentiation of different kinds and analytic models of responsibilities. 1) He distinguished insiderand outsider responsibility, it is also said, moraland ethical responsibility; 2) He made a distinction between kinds of responsibilities. Like usually people cuts general responsibility into moraland legal responsibility, he cuts action responsibility into roleand task responsibility; 3) He researched how to distribute co-responsibility; 4) Analysis institution and corporation responsibility; 5) Confronted with responsibility conflicts, he developed ten priority rules; 6) He held, ethics of science and technology should be discussed as s special business ethics. This article discusses Lenks above views.