Chapter Title: The Practitioner from Within: Revisiting the Virtues
Chapter Title: The Practitioner from Within: Revisiting the Virtues
Name of the Book: Cyber Ethics
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Quote:
“If there is such thing as the truth about the subject matter of ethics..Why is there any expectation that is should be simple? In particular, why should it be conceptually simple, using one or two ethical concepts, such as duty or good state of affairs, rather than many? Perhaps we need as many concepts to describe it as we find we need, and no fewer.”
Learning Expectations:
1. To know more about ethics and morality relation.
2. To understand character forming vs. action guiding theory.
3. To know the need for contemporary moral theory.
4. To know the different Core Values.
5. To know the Imagination and Narrative Genre.
Review:
As users of computer technology, we are faced with a myriad of ethical problems generated by computer mediated action. Invasion of privacy, using the internet for pornography and illegal access to information and systems have become newsworthy as the sex scandals and more far reaching. The response to these issues, at least in the United States, has been tried to pass laws to stop the abuse. As we have seen this attempts at regulation are seriously disputed by those who value the freedom associated with the global information infrastructure and are hacked around by those with technological expertise.
Traditionally computer ethics texts and courses involve taking students who are not philosophically trained, exposing them to action guiding theories presenting them with the codes of ethics of several companies and professional organizations and asking them to make ethical decisions in scenario based cases.
And so the answer to our mutual concerns lies in open discourse between our groups: those from without and the practitioners from within. The reality of computer technology is that sooner or later we will all become practitioners from within on many different levels. We therefore need a commonality of language that will cross the global infrastructure of information communication technology. So appreciate the approaching computer ethics through moral agency does not negate serious attention to action nor concern for objects in the information infrastructure. Rather it adds one more dimension to a complex field and approaches computer ethics as the integrative, global field that it is.
Learning’s/Insights:
• Ethics
• Morality
• Character forming vs. Action guiding theories
• Need for contemporary moral theory
• Revisiting the virtues
• Core vales
• Practitioner from within
• Imagination and narrative genre
Integrative Questions:
1. What are the core values and explain each.
2. What do you mean by revisiting the virtues?
3. What virtues are mentioned?
4. What is character forming and action guiding theories.
5. What is ethics?
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