Volume 29, Issue 1, 2019
Philosophy in an Age of Crisis, Part I
Jean A. Campbell
Pages 147-158
Freedom, Self-Determination and Automation
Considering Political Impulses in the Age of Digitalization
The aim of this essay is to examine the long-term evolution of the material reproductive vehicles of society. The fairly continuous trend of economic integration and progressive enfranchisement of the world’s people is indicated, ascertainable even with the emergence from general slavery of ancient times, through feudalism to the modern stage of industrialism and widespread national sovereignties. With greater political expression has come higher degrees and penetration of economic prosperity. Both vicious and virtuous tendencies of automation are considered. The necessary foundation of living labor is recognized.