Empirical Experience as a Source and Consideration of Human Morality in Society 5.0 through David Hume's Perspective on Morality

Abstract

Society 5.0 explains the central role of IoT, AI, and robots in social, cultural, and economic development. Today, this influence does not only occur in Japan but throughout the world, including Indonesia. This technological progress raises a fundamental question, namely, whether this technological development can influence human moral resources and considerations. Does this make humans into unfeeling entities focused on global progress? This article aims to analyze moral issues in Society 5.0 using sources and moral considerations according to David Hume with the literature study method. David Hume emphasized in his morals that empirical experience and feelings form morality itself. In Society 5.0, empirical experience and feelings become something that are taken into account. The first reason is that the value of empirical experience is starting to be shifted by technology and human interaction carried out through digital media. Second, developing technology cannot completely replace the emotional aspects of human relationships, such as trust and sympathy. According to Hume, these two elements are important in shaping human moral responses so that they can reflect feelings and empirical experiences in order to have a morality that is increasingly relevant to the technological development of Society 5.0.