Chapter 1 : "Foundations of Information Ethics"

Luciano Floridi
Quote:
"From a resource perspective, it seems that the moral machine needs information,
and quite a lot of it, to function properly. However, evem within the limited s
cope adopted by an analysis based soley on information as a resource, care shoul
d be exercised lest all ethical discourse is reduced to the nuances of higher qu
antity,quality, and intelligibility of informational resources.
What I expect to learn :
I expect how can computer ethics merge ni 1990's?
Review:
Information society of the pivotal role are being played intellectual, intang
ible assets (knowledge-based economy), information-intensive services(business a
nd property services, communications, finance, and insurance), and public sector
s (education, public administration, health care.) Our government has the respon
sibilities to our economic crisis it is well said that nowadays, a pressing taks
is to formulate an information ethics that can treat the world of data, informa
tion, and knowledge with their relevant life cycles including creation, elaborat
ion, distribution, communication, storage, protection, usage, and possible destr
uction) of all our natural resources it is being abused to is capacity, for exam
ple we only need a 285 trees every 3 months but some of us cut trees (if my idea
is correct) 500, it is so far to 285 compared to 500 trees once every 3 months.
A problem can be solve if we can cooperate information maybe a big help for us
in use to our economic crisis and to save our natural resources. Infosphere is
a neologism I coined years ago based on "biosphere", a term refeerong to that li
mited region on our planet that supports life", for distinction Luciano Floridi
stated it and he somehow deceives that we should help our earth to be save. Info
r-resource, info-target, infor-product, infosphere are the parts of Informationa
l Resources, since the appearance of the first works in the eighties, Informatio
n Ethics has been claimed to be the study of motal issues arising from one or an
other of the three distinct "information arrows" in the RPT model. Socrates alre
ady argued that a moral agent is naturally interested in gaining as much valuabl
e information as the circumstances require, and that a well-informed agent is mo
re likely to do the right thing. The ensuing "ethical intellectualism" analyzes
evil and morally wrong behavior as the outcome of deficient information. Convers
ely, moral responsibility tends to be directly proportional to A's degree of inf
ormation.
The limits of any Microethical approach to information ethics, First, the mode
l is too simplistic. Arguably, several improtant issues belong mainly but not on
ly to the analysis of just one "informational arrow". The reader may have alread
y thought of several examples that illustrate the problem: someone's testimony i
s someones's else trustworthy information, responsibility may be determined by t
he information holds, but it may also concern the information issues about, they
should have talk it earlier with the others so that they can eventually have a
brainstorming for the others ideas, that might be morally questionable and shoul
d not circulate.
What I have learned :
I learned that Microethical approach to ethics may help me to get some initial
orientation in multiplicity of issues belonging to different interpretations of
Information Ethics.
Integrative Questions
1.) What is Computer Ethics?
2.) What is IE as an Ethics of Informational Environment?
3.) What is Microethical approach to Information Ethics?
4.) What is Information Ethics?
5.) What is Moral Agents?