Ethics of Transitions

Jim Dratwa is a philosopher, professor of philosophy in Europe and the United States, and the head of ethics in science and technology at the European Commission. His work addresses the interconnections between knowledges, actions and values.

• Foreword 1Bernard REBERIntroductions 5Before the first evening 5I.1 First evening – First story 14I.2 Second evening – Second story 15I.3 Third evening – Ultimate story 18I.4. Beginning of the awakening – Histories found (Return to the roots) 27I.5 The two sources (seeds, seedlings, schemes) 30I.6 Far and wide open book 37Inter-section 1 What is Ethics of Sciences, Technologies, and Innovation? 49Book I Living Your Values 59Before the first morning 591.1 The measure of all things 621.1.1 At any time 621.1.2 A world of difference 631.2 Having read this book 641.3 At the roots of ethics 651.3.1 What is the just? 671.3.2 What is the good? 681.3.3 Duty to respect 701.3.4 Chanson de geste 721.3.5 Closed book, in the open 771.3.6 To be present 781.4 At the roots of violence (Sins of the Fathers) (Must one eat up?) (Winter is coming) 781.4.1 Addendum: An eye for an eye 831.4.2 Change in our time 841.5 Is life a game? 851.5.1 The game of the world 851.5.2 Between game and world: three movements 871.5.3 From the three movements to the fourth premise: from lusory attitude to morality design 881.6 The ethics paradox 92Inter-section 2 Cis-theme 99Book II European Constructions of the Future 143The rapture of Europe 1432.1 What Europe do we want to live in together? 1452.1.1 Futures (and Europe) (imagined communities) 1462.1.2 (Fore)seeing like a State 1462.1.3 The European project 1472.1.4 Futures (and science and technology) 1482.1.5 Palimpsest and palinode (imagined communities) 1492.2 Precious participation 1502.2.1 The three deficits 1502.2.1.1 Time travels 1522.2.1.2 The burnout of the hummingbird (deficit, overflow, responsibility and catastrophe) (a cautionary tail) 1542.2.1.3 Against the sovereign scheme and its world 1552.2.2 Challenges in Transition 1582.2.2.1 Project Transition 1582.2.2.2 The two issues of our age: Democracy for Climate? 1592.2.2.3 To Chantal (États généraux) 1602.2.2.4 Thinking in Transition 1632.2.2.5 Transitions in the time of pandemic 1662.2.2.6 L’autre fin de l’histoire 1692.2.2.7 The Democracy Mystique 1702.2.2.8 Participatory inclusive deliberative democracy 1732.3 Science and politics: divides and alternatives (making sense together) 1762.3.1 Introducing the courage of alternatives 1762.3.2 Openness to the worlds: towards alternatives 1792.3.2.1 The cosmopolitical question 1792.3.2.2 Political and cosmopolitical epistemologies 1802.3.2.3 Precautionary principle and regime change 182Inter-section 3 The Other Europes 185Book III Institutions and Innovations of Value 191Europe of values 1913.1 Institutionalizing ethics: the value of ethicization 1953.2 “Ethics of” 1993.2.1 Addendum: the other ethicization 2013.3 Europocene 2023.3.1 The Anthropocene Misunderstanding: what’s in a name and how to make the most of it 2023.3.2 The Question of Europe 204Inter-section 4 For Love 207Book IV We Have Never Been Human 211Preliminaries: Ethics, Transitions, and something out of sight 2114.1 Human dignity, I write your name (touchstone) 2154.1.1 The section in brief 2154.1.2 The inquiry is underway 2154.1.3 Human dignity and how did we get here? 2204.1.4 Conclusions 2254.2. Portrait-robot(breaking through the artificialities of intelligence and of free will) 2274.3 Human too human (Ecce homo) (us) (last dialogue of Estella and Sophy) 2294.3.1 Epilogue 2304.4 Scriptures (changing life) (the code) (the typewriter and the book of life) 2324.4.1 The ethical framework 2354.4.2 Political epistemologies 2354.4.3 Ethics Governance 2364.4.4 The other code… Towards the world – Hacking, Designing, Making 2384.5 Letter to Apolline (transhumanism) 2424.6 The end 247Bibliography 253Table of Epigraphs 267Index 271