The relationship between the uniqueness of computer ethics and its independence as a discipline in applied ethics

The main purpose of this article is to discuss the place of the ethics of virtues and char acter in nursing and health care in general, and in psychiatric nursing in particular. To attain this goal, the relationship between the ethics of duty (i.e. rule based ethics) and the ethics of virtue and character will be clarified in order to defend our main hypothe sis that these two types of ethics should complement each other, since both are necessary but neither by itself is sufficient for nursing. This means that any applied ethics, as in nursing, should consider the importance of the agent's moral character. To support our arguments, we shall use cases from the empirical reality of psychiatric and mental health care.

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Computer Ethics and Neoplatonic Virtue

International Journal of Cyber Ethics in Education ◽

10.4018/ijcee.2011010101 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 1-11 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Giannis Stamatellos

Keyword(s):

Virtue Ethics ◽

Information Society ◽

Ethical Theory ◽

Online Communication ◽

Applied Ethics ◽

Computer Ethics ◽

Intellectual Autonomy ◽

Current Trends ◽

Moral Problems ◽

Ict Industry

In normative ethical theory, computer ethics belongs to the area of applied ethics dealing with practical and everyday moral problems arising from the use of computers and computer networks in the information society. Modern scholarship usually approves deontological and utilitarian ethics as appropriate to computer ethics, while classical theories of ethics, such as virtue ethics, are usually neglected as anachronistic and unsuitable to the information era and ICT industry. During past decades, an Aristotelian form of virtue ethics has been revived in modern philosophical enquiries with serious attempts for application to computer ethics and cyberethics. In this paper, the author argues that current trends and behaviours in online communication require an ethics of self-care found in Plotinus’ self-centred virtue ethics theory. The paper supports the position that Plotinus’ virtue ethics of intellectual autonomy and self-determination is relevant to cyberethics discussions involved in computer education and online communication.

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Ecological Virtue: Articulating Tolerance as a Mutual-Respect Between Human Being and Environment

International Journal of Interreligious and Intercultural Studies ◽

10.32795/ijiis.vol3.iss1.2020.683 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 35-41

Author(s):

Muhammad Nur Prabowo Setyabudi

Keyword(s):

Environmental Ethics ◽

Mutual Recognition ◽

Applied Ethics ◽

Political Community ◽

Ecological Community ◽

Mutual Respect ◽

Political Conception ◽

Human And Nature ◽

The Relationship ◽

Important Branch

This paper elaborates the meaning of eco-tolerance in the context of ecological community between human and environment. Tolerance is often discussed as theological conception related to the relationship between religion (religious virtue) or socio-political conception related to the relationship between community or identity (political virtue). But how to build a tolerant relationship between human and their environment? What kind of wisdom that we need? I discuss about tolerance as an ecological wisdom or, “ecological virtue”, and a need for human to become a moral subject who has an ecological insight. I will elaborate ethical arguments from the perspective of virtue ethics, one of important disciplines in normative ethics, and environmental ethics, the most important branch in applied ethics, which describe that humans really need to have a mindset of ecocentric oriented, be wise and respectful toward the nature and the environment, build a mutual respect relationship, tolerance is not only a main value in political community, but also a main value in ecological community in a mutual respect ecosystem atmosphere and the existence of mutual recognition between human and nature.

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Computer Ethics and Neoplatonic Virtue

Ethical Technology Use, Policy, and Reactions in Educational Settings ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-1882-4.ch001 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 1-12

Author(s):

Giannis Stamatellos

Keyword(s):

Virtue Ethics ◽

Online Communication ◽

Applied Ethics ◽

Self Care ◽

Computer Ethics ◽

Intellectual Autonomy ◽

Current Trends ◽

Moral Problems ◽

Ict Industry ◽

Normative Ethical Theory

In normative ethical theory, computer ethics belongs to the area of applied ethics dealing with practical and everyday moral problems arising from the use of computers and computer networks in the information society. Modern scholarship usually approves deontological and utilitarian ethics as appropriate to computer ethics, while classical theories of ethics, such as virtue ethics, are usually neglected as anachronistic and unsuitable to the information era and ICT industry. During past decades, an Aristotelian form of virtue ethics has been revived in modern philosophical enquiries with serious attempts for application to computer ethics and cyberethics. In this paper, the author argues that current trends and behaviours in online communication require an ethics of self-care found in Plotinus’ self-centred virtue ethics theory. The paper supports the position that Plotinus’ virtue ethics of intellectual autonomy and self-determination is relevant to cyberethics discussions involved in computer education and online communication.

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The Theory and Practice of Applied Ethics

Dialogue ◽

10.1017/s0012217300011616 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 30 (3) ◽

pp. 213-234 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Barry Hoffmaster

Keyword(s):

Medical Ethics ◽

First Principles ◽

Clinical Medicine ◽

Applied Ethics ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

The Relationship ◽

Unrealistic Expectations

Applied ethics is at a watershed. In all its domains a gulf between the theory of applied ethics and the practice of applied ethics is now being recognized. In medical ethics, for example, it has been observed that “practicing clinicians often feel let down by bioethics.” The disappointment of clinicians is attributed in part to their own unrealistic expectations but is also said to be a function ofthe extent to which bioethics as a discipline doesn't seem to be in possession of the realities of practice. Bioethicists tend to leave the “facts” of clinical medicine to the doctors; their task is then to apply elegant and compelling arguments drawn from first principles of ethics … to these undisputed and indisputable facts. Unfortunately, when the relationship between clinical medicine and bioethics is conceived … [in this way], the result is a very sterile discourse.

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From computer ethics and the ethics of AI towards an ethics of digital ecosystems

AI and Ethics ◽

10.1007/s43681-021-00080-1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Bernd Carsten Stahl

Keyword(s):

Theoretical Basis ◽

Digital Technologies ◽

Computer Ethics ◽

Societal Impact ◽

Digital Ecosystems ◽

Technical Systems ◽

Similarities And Differences ◽

The One ◽

The Relationship ◽

Technical Artefact

AbstractEthical, social and human rights aspects of computing technologies have been discussed since the inception of these technologies. In the 1980s, this led to the development of a discourse often referred to as computer ethics. More recently, since the middle of the 2010s, a highly visible discourse on the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI) has developed. This paper discusses the relationship between these two discourses and compares their scopes, the topics and issues they cover, their theoretical basis and reference disciplines, the solutions and mitigations options they propose and their societal impact. The paper argues that an understanding of the similarities and differences of the discourses can benefit the respective discourses individually. More importantly, by reviewing them, one can draw conclusions about relevant features of the next discourse, the one we can reasonably expect to follow after the ethics of AI. The paper suggests that instead of focusing on a technical artefact such as computers or AI, one should focus on the fact that ethical and related issues arise in the context of socio-technical systems. Drawing on the metaphor of ecosystems which is widely applied to digital technologies, it suggests preparing for a discussion of the ethics of digital ecosystems. Such a discussion can build on and benefit from a more detailed understanding of its predecessors in computer ethics and the ethics of AI.

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In search of moral foundations of law: debate on nature of inclusive legal positivism

Omsk Scientific Bulletin Series Society History Modernity ◽

10.25206/2542-0488-2021-6-4-119-123 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 6 (4) ◽

pp. 119-123

Author(s):

A. B. Didikin ◽

Keyword(s):

Legal System ◽

Legal Theory ◽

Applied Ethics ◽

Legal Positivism ◽

Moral Foundations ◽

Judicial Practice ◽

Theoretical Approaches ◽

Law And Morality ◽

Necessary And Sufficient ◽

The Relationship

The paper is devoted to the analysis of the arguments of foreign jurists about the nature and advantages of inclusive legal positivism as a legal theory that justifies the existence of moral foundations of the legal system. Examples from judicial practice are considered, as well as key theoretical approaches that reveal the necessary and sufficient features of inclusive legal positivism, as well as its subject specifics and basic provisions on the relationship between law and morality. The paper is prepared within the framework of the HSE research project «Applied Ethics».

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Roboethics: a Bottom-up Interdisciplinary Discourse in the Field of Applied Ethics in Robotics

The International Review of Information Ethics ◽

10.29173/irie133 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 6 ◽

pp. 2-8

Author(s):

Gianmarco Veruggio ◽

Fiorella Operto

Keyword(s):

Applied Ethics ◽

Computer Ethics ◽

Information Ethics ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Design Development ◽

Ethical Problems ◽

Intelligent Machines ◽

The Social ◽

The World ◽

Industrial Revolutions

This paper deals with the birth of Roboethics. Roboethics is the ethics inspiring the design, development and employment of Intelligent Machines. Roboethics shares many 'sensitive areas' with Computer Ethics, Information Ethics and Bioethics. It investigates the social and ethical problems due to the effects of the Second and Third Industrial Revolutions in the Humans/Machines interaction’s domain. Urged by the responsibilities involved in their professions, an increasing number of roboticists from all over the world have started - in cross-cultural collaboration with scholars of Humanities – to thoroughly develop the Roboethics, the applied ethics that should inspire the design, manufacturing and use of robots. The result is the Roboethics Roadmap.

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HUMANISTIC ASPECTS OF ECOLOGICAL VALUES IN BUDDHISM AND TAOISM AND THEIR SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE

Skhid ◽

10.21847/1728-9343.2021.1(3).238928 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 (3) ◽

pp. 29-33

Author(s):

Iryna LAZOREVYCH

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Applied Ethics ◽

Social Significance ◽

Environmental Narratives ◽

The Social ◽

Ecological Culture ◽

Intellectual Potential ◽

Role Of Religion ◽

The Relationship

The tendency to seek the harmonization of the relationship between nature and man is as relevant as ever. In the social value discourse, increase in the role of religion and religions in public space encourages religions themselves to become useful to society with their environmental narratives, and society – to be more attentive to their potential. After all, now the answers to the question of how to save humanity without global losses and how to move from a destructive type of development to a regulated one are as relevant as ever. How to mobilize moral and intellectual potential? It is obvious that global problems affect absolutely all segments of the population: Christians and Buddhists, agnostics and atheists. Undoubtedly, these issues concern churches and their spiritual leaders. In the article, the author reveals humanistic aspects of ecological ideas of the East (on the example of Buddhism and Taoism), explains the resource of Buddhist and Taoist environmental wisdom in its heuristic possibilities for today. Relevant guidelines are important for analysis and reflection, at least because they have mentally shaped the ecological culture of its adherents. And as is known, the ecological construct of a number of Eastern countries is recognized in the West as worthy of approval and imitation for the formation of a model of sustainable development and potential establishment of environmentally friendly society. The author focuses not so much on the dogmatic features of the substantiation of Buddhist and Taoist ideas (in tendencies and directions), as on the identification of their common humanistic logic, which can be understood and accepted by Western people (they do not have to become the followers of relevant Eastern doctrines). The researcher also considers the value potential of the worldview cultures in the aspect of sacralization of the rhythms of nature, reverence for its beauty as an image of wise cosmic “industry”. The article implements the disciplinary interaction of religious studies, applied ethics, aesthetic hermeneutics.

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