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The purpose of this article is to thoroughly research Habermas’ view of technology with regard to his discourse ethics. In the first part of the article, Habermas’ theoretical starting points concerning the question of technology are presented. In the next segment, findings are presented, which can be traced mainly in an indirect way from Habermas’ discussions on media theory and from his theory of the colonization of the lifeworld. In the next step, Habermas’ relation to the phenomenon of mass media is addressed. The mass media are understood as a concrete expression of modern progress and are closely linked to technological development. In the last part of the article, Habermas’ relation to the internet is presented. The internet is widely considered an alternative to the mass media in modern times. The article presents a holistic analysis of Habermas’ relation to technology. It also presents some interesting findings regarding Habermas’ positioning towards the mass media and the internet.

The Assisted Human Reproduction brings in itself the possibility of human creation inside laboratory limits, but always circumscribed to parents that aim the emergence of life there instrumentalized. However, the free gene manipulation and the process sui generis bring ethic questions likely to be analized under the most clarified light of nowadays philosophy. Habermas, this way, rises through his Communicative Action Theory and post-modern reason, as a critic of genetic alteration instruments that exist not on Assisted Human Reproduction, but in analogous procedure: the Liberal Eugenics. While sees in this process a paradox inside the Economic Liberalism, the philosopher holds up, for a long period of time, to the ethic and rational analisis of speeches and intersubjective freedoms wrapped in the refered eugenic process, aiming this study the habermasian argumentative equiparation to Assisted Human Reproduction, aimed on the bibliographical research of Habermas, pointing the correlation between assisted reproduction and liberal eugenics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]