Relationship between Technology and Philosophy of History in Modernity and Islam

The aimof the present paper is to consider the relationship between technology and human being’s attitude toward the course of human being’s history or philosophy of history. Although development of technology has changed to a necessity in our country and has been one of the major concerns of policy makers and politicians of Iran’s contemporary history; less attention has been paid to its scientific and specifically philosophical aspects. At first، development of technology was solely done based on technical view، but then، while technical view was changed to deeper scientific layers، its necessity and cultural aspect were also taken into account. However، till now technology has not attracted the attentions of our scholars and policy-makers from philosophical point of view. The problem is that whether new technology has been formed based on the specific approach of new human beings toward history or whether the new technology is unduly about any attitude toward history، and whether there is any special relationship between technology and human being’s attitude toward history or in another term “philosophy of history”?

The present study is conducted through documentary-library methodologyand consists of two sections. In the first section، the relationship between new technology and philosophy of modernity history is taken into account and in the second section; the fundamental differences between philosophy of Islamic history and philosophy of modernity history and necessities of such fundamental difference in understanding the nature of technology are stated.

The author of the paper concludes although the essence of human being is a historical essence، technology is a part of historical essence of human being. The historical course of modern human beings which is progressive and hegemonic toward the surrounding world، leads to such technology، and where the historical course of human being becomes religious and Islamic، while it has harmony with surrounding world rather than domination over it; a technology with such relationship will be created.