Ma`rifat Farhangi Ejtemaei

The issue of the intervention of values in the emergence of technology after the industrial revolution gradually became the focus of the philosophers of technology. Using an analytical- rational method, this paper studies this issue by analyzing the four causes and paying attention to the internal relationship of each of these causes with the others. It explains the privileged position of ultimate causality among the four causes, its requirements in the value of technical artifacts, and the distinction between the borders of the ontology of natural things and technical artifacts on the basis of the principles of Islamic philosophy. Research findings indicate that the presence of the ultimate cause in the emergence of technologies underlies the presence of human values in the ontological dimension of technologies. This, at the same time, raises questions about the value and ethics of technologies themselves. Human ideals, on the one hand, are formed under the influence of epistemological and non-epistemological foundations such as social contexts and needs and special interests and, on the other hand, lead to the formation of certain norms and requirements in the internal body of technologies. As an application and a part of technical system, human ideals require the formation of specific human behaviors and actions in line with their expected ends and functions.