Цифровизация общества и будущее христианства к вопросу о трансформации ценностно-нормативной системы общества. Материалы VII Между народной научной ко

It remains an open question whether the digital-technical view of people will prevail. In any case, it has arrived in everyday language and perception and is contributing to a shift in emphasis in thinking about people in the direction of functional thinking, their measurement using quantitative performance parameters, the dominance of means–end rationality and causal thinking instead of freedom and intentionality. Humanity is increasingly defi ned in terms of performative qualities, with the basic ideas of Kantian anthropology, human rights, and religious thinking about human beings receding into the background, according to which human beings have dignity and rights independent of any performance or capability, and according to which any purely output-oriented defi nition of human beings would categorically miss their essence. The categorical diff erence between man and machine, or its disappearance, returns as a major theme in the anthropology and philosophy of technology, but also in theological debates on the position of man in modernity and in the future. The brilliant closing speech in Charlie Chaplin’s fi lm “The Great Dictator”, in which the dictatorship of technical thinking is denounced, has the eff ect of a prophetic word here: “We have developed speed, but inwardly we have stood still. We let machines work for us, and they also think for us. Cleverness has made us haughty and our knowledge cold and hard, we speak too much and feel too little, but fi rst comes humanity and then the machines!”