Robots, Slaves, and the Paradox of the Human Condition in Isaac Asimov's Robot Stories
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15210%2F16%3A33161339" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15210/16:33161339 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.18290/rkult.2016.7.3-1" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.18290/rkult.2016.7.3-1</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.18290/rkult.2016.7.3-1" target="_blank" >10.18290/rkult.2016.7.3-1</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Robots, Slaves, and the Paradox of the Human Condition in Isaac Asimov's Robot Stories
Original language description
Slaves and robots have in common that they are intended to obey orders. Therefore I suggest taking a close look at some of Isaac Asimov's robot stories. Executing a program while detecting and overcoming problems and acting towards fulfillment of given instructions-all this makes a robot a perfect slave. In the same way as slave laws in the British Colonies in America wereintended to keep slavery effective by confining slaves in their place, so are Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics the formal condition for the workability of a robot holding society. Asimov's androids reveal the implicit impossibility of both robots and slaves by establishing the command structure that would be needed to keep the system working and then disassembling this structure. The Three Laws, as they are meant to guarantee protection, command, and operation, cannot possibly work with separate master/slave subjects. They are a paradoxical juxtaposition. And consequently, slavery is logically impossible.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AA - Philosophy and religion
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GB14-37038G" target="_blank" >GB14-37038G: Between Renaissance and Baroque: Philosophy and Knowledge in the Czech Lands within the Wider European Context</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Roczniki Kulturoznawcze
ISSN
2082-8578
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
7
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
PL - POLAND
Number of pages
20
Pages from-to
5-24
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
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