How the Good Life is Possible:New Alienation and Transcendence of Moral Education in the Age of Digital Intelligence
The alienation of moral education in the age of digital intelligence has deviated from people’s pursuit of the value of the vision of a better life.The theoretical explanation of social acceleration theory on the acceleration of science and technology,the acceleration of social change,and the acceleration of the pace of life can help to respond to the paradoxical problem of social acceleration and moral deceleration.In the digital age,the new alienation of moral education is characterized by the precise and quantitative orientation of moral education due to the acceleration of science and technology;the intergenerational asynchrony and general intellectualization and abstraction of moral education due to the acceleration of social change;and the disembodiment and increased burden on teachers and students due to the acceleration of the pace of life.The underlying logic of the formation of the new alienation of moral education lies in the fact that human beings have encountered a security crisis ontologically,and have put their trust in digital experience to transcend the finiteness of life;epistemologically,they insist on the hegemony of reason,leading to the absolute worship of technology;and in terms of the theory of value,they pursue the supremacy of capital,leading to the objectification of time and education.In the age of digital intelligence,for the transcendence of the new alienation of moral education,we should seek resonance and promote the qualitative enhancement of moral education;trace the Chinese cultural traditions and go back to the educational implications of the family;return to the true nature of moral education and re-examine the meaning of moral education;and with the fruits of the philosophy of accelerationism,we should embrace the acceleration and unleash the potentials of technological change.
digital intelligence eramoral educationneo-alienationsocial accelerationthe good life