El valor de la técnica

Abstract

This paper intends a reflection about technique and values, particularly about the value of the technique. First, the technique is considered as a value, a superlative value, since it allows the most valuable thing for our species, its own survival. Simultaneously it gives us our nature. The human nature revels itself as an artifact. Now then, the price of that technical value is also superlative, since the technical emptying of the nature makes that the species lacks natural value: there are not natural values. The values must be created. Second, the value is considered as a technique: to value is also a technical operation. The very values appear as techniques, something contingent and plural like every technical thing, and «groundless» because they don't obey to any natural reason, but to the «insufficiently » rational decision of using them. However, such an intrinsic artificiality of the values makes them to be even worthier.