Information technologies and the tragedy of the Good Will |
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| Authors: | Luciano Floridi |
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| Institution: | (1) Dipartimento di Scienze Filosofiche, Università degli Studi di Bari, Wolfson College, Oxford, OX2 6UD, UK;(2) Faculty of Philosophy and IEG, Computing Laboratory, Oxford University, St. Cross College, Oxford, OX1 3LZ, UK |
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| Abstract: | Information plays a major role in any moral action. ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) have revolutionized the life of information, from its production and management to its consumption, thus deeply affecting our moral lives. Amid the many issues they have raised, a very serious one, discussed in this paper, is labelled the tragedy of the Good Will. This is represented by the increasing pressure that ICT and their deluge of information are putting on any agent who would like to act morally, when informed about actual or potential evils, but who also lacks the resources to do much about them. In the paper, it is argued that the tragedy may be at least mitigated, if not solved, by seeking to re-establish some equilibrium, through ICT themselves, between what agents know about the world and what they can do to improve it. |
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| Keywords: | agents evil globalization Good Will information ethics tragedy of the Good Will |
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