Pedroso Lima Silva

This theoretical, bibliographical and philosophical work seeks to think about modern technology from a philosophical perspective, in terms of its origins, meanings and essence. Starting from the principle of thought of the philosophers of Ancient Greece, mainly Socrates and Plato, the dissertation seeks to think of a new understanding of modern technology, in which it can be understood from the principle of paideia, the Greek formative ideal. To this end, in the first chapter, I describe and reflect on the formative and political ideal in Ancient Greece, seeking to find principles, germs for the construction of a thought for modernity. In the second and concluding chapter, I study modernity and the confusion that modern knowledge reform makes between science and technology, basing the former on the latter. I describe and think about the Greek origins of the issue, the scientific revolution and the political and economic revolutions of the 18th century, to then arrive at the philosophy of contemporary technology, examining the main perspectives and seeking to initiate and structure the construction of a perspective that has Greek thought and paideia as its model, principle and seed.