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Abstract: The article covers issues realated to the conceptualisation of technology assessment (TA), and expecially its ethical and normative aspects. The main criterion of the normative technology assessment should be not hierarchically organised value systems of any kind, but the fundamental imperative of action base on the "generic" value of the human life, existence of present-day and future generations. This imperative of broadened responsibiltiy is a basis for preliminary normative assessment. An appeal to value hiearchy and its ad hoc interpretation should follwo this preliminary assessment. The final part of the article examines problems of institutionalisation of TA in Russia. Far-reaching political and economic changes, which started after the downfall of the single-party system in 1991, have resulted in qualitative modification of social statu and goals of science and technology. Both science and technology could be considered nowadays as engines of human- and environmentally oriented modernization of Russia, But the great importance of science and technology in the transformation process makes new approaches to forecast and evaluation of technological development necessary. |
