| Abstract [eng] |
The work Information Ethics: In Search for Methodology deals with the main methodological positions of the ethics of the information society. First, it argues that the increased sophistication of computers, as well as the emergence of the World Wide Web and the internet, causes new problems, and also leads to the ontological transformation of the informational environment, its agents and their interactions, which is difficult to explain using models of the classical ethics. Second, the perspective of global ethics of Krystyna Gorniak Kocykowska is discussed: she believes that the old ethical problems, such as the locality of the moral law and its implicated ethical relativism, would be naturally dissolved by the use of the internet because of the development of the global community, and therefore, the ethical code (in a wide sense of moral order) would become global. Third, it discusses the attempt to create a unified model of information ethics. One of the most unique concepts of IE is presented by Floridi, which is that information, and the decrease of entropy, should be treated as the main values and the object of our ethical concern. Finally, it is shown that the new methodological proposition of IE by Floridi is criticized for only using one principle or one reason to define ethics. The way out of this situation, according to B. Williams, is not to search for a unified ethical model, but to deepen reflection and involve people into an ethical discussion. |
