Global ethics for the digital age – flourishing ethics      
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Doç. Dr. Nesibe KANTAR Kırşehir Ahi Evran Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Terrell Ward Bynum
Southern Connecticut State University, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri
Makale Türü Özgün Makale
Makale Alt Türü ESCI dergilerinde yayınlanan tam makale
Dergi Adı Journal of Information Communication and Ethics in Society
Dergi ISSN 1477-996X Wos Dergi Scopus Dergi
Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler ESCI
Makale Dili İngilizce
Basım Tarihi 06-2021
Cilt No 19
Sayı 3
Sayfalar 329 / 344
DOI Numarası 10.1108/JICES-01-2021-0016
Makale Linki https://doi.org/10.1108/jices-01-2021-0016
Özet
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore an emerging ethical theory for the Digital Age - Flourishing Ethics - which will likely be applicable in many different cultures worldwide, addressing not only human concerns but also activities, decisions and consequences of robots, cyborgs, artificially intelligent agents and other new digital technologies.
Design/methodology/approach
In the past, a number of influential ethical theories in Western philosophy have focused upon choice and autonomy, or pleasure and pain or fairness and justice. These are important ethical concepts, but we consider "flourishing" to be a broader "umbrella concept" under which all of the above ideas can be included, plus additional ethical ideas from cultures in other regions of the world (for example, Buddhist, Muslim, Confucianist cultures and others). Before explaining the applied approach, this study discusses relevant ideas of four example thinkers who emphasize flourishing in their ethics writings: Aristotle, Norbert Wiener, James Moor and Simon Rogerson.
Findings
Flourishing Ethics is not a single ethical theory. It is "an approach," a "family" of similar ethical theories which can be successfully applied to humans in many different cultures, as well as to non-human agents arising from new digital technologies.
Originality/value
This appears to be the first extended analysis of the emerging flourishing ethics "family" of theories.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Digital ethics | Robot ethics | Ethical anomalies | Flourishing ethics | Just consequentialism | Global information ethics
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SCOPUS 16
Google Scholar 41
Global ethics for the digital age – flourishing ethics

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