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Framing the Virtue-Ethical Account in the Ethics of Technology

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29/1 – Spring 2024, pages 111-137
Date of online publication: 28 juin 2024
Date of publication: 28 juin 2024

Abstract

In recent years there has been growing interest in adapting virtue ethics to the ethics of technology. However, it has most typically been invoked to address some particular issue of moral importance, and there is only a limited range of works dealing with the methodological question of how virtue ethics may contribute to this field. My approach in this paper is threefold. I start with a brief discussion of Aristotelian virtue ethics, with a view to constructing a framework in which to then address at least some of the aspects of the growing technicization of life that call for scrutiny. I subsequently proceed further by outlining three possible models of virtue-theoretical analysis within the ethics of technology, giving special attention to those changes in human agency where technicization can be seen to exert a significant influence. Finally, I focus on the third such possibility, the extended virtue model, as a basis for calling for a more inclusive account of moral agency.

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Machura, Piotr. 2024. "Framing the Virtue-Ethical Account in the Ethics of Technology." Forum Philosophicum 29 (1): 111–37. doi:10.35765/forphil.2024.2901.06

 

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