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Computer Ethics and Neoplatonic Virtue: A Reconsideration of Cyberethics in the Light of Plotinus’ Ethical Theory

Computer Ethics and Neoplatonic Virtue: A Reconsideration of Cyberethics in the Light of Plotinus’ Ethical Theory

Giannis Stamatellos
Copyright: © 2011 |Volume: 1 |Issue: 1 |Pages: 11
ISSN: 2155-6903|EISSN: 2155-6911|EISBN13: 9781613506257|DOI: 10.4018/ijcee.2011010101
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Stamatellos, Giannis. "Computer Ethics and Neoplatonic Virtue: A Reconsideration of Cyberethics in the Light of Plotinus’ Ethical Theory." IJCEE vol.1, no.1 2011: pp.1-11. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijcee.2011010101

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Stamatellos, G. (2011). Computer Ethics and Neoplatonic Virtue: A Reconsideration of Cyberethics in the Light of Plotinus’ Ethical Theory. International Journal of Cyber Ethics in Education (IJCEE), 1(1), 1-11. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijcee.2011010101

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Stamatellos, Giannis. "Computer Ethics and Neoplatonic Virtue: A Reconsideration of Cyberethics in the Light of Plotinus’ Ethical Theory," International Journal of Cyber Ethics in Education (IJCEE) 1, no.1: 1-11. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijcee.2011010101

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Abstract

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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