著者

笠井 哲

出版者

福島工業高等専門学校

雑誌

研究紀要 (ISSN:09166041)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.43, pp.71-78, 2003-03-10

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The purpose of this paper is to consider the meaning of technology in the third chapter of Gulliver's Travels. In Swift's days the Scientific Revolution was completed. The scientific contents in Gulliver's Travels were almost derived from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. It seemed that Swift severely satirized the scientific studies in those days. But he satirized not the scientific studies themselves, but the biased man that forgets himself in them. Practically, while the technological advances can promote the welfare of mankind, they can blight it. In recent years the ethical education for the engineers starts in Japan. The Gulliver's Travels has the great meaning, in that it had already warned about the future of the technology in the 18th century.