Information,knowledge and wisdom: groundwork for the normative evaluation of digital information and its relation to the good life |
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Authors: | Edward H Spence |
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Institution: | (1) Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE), Charles Sturt University, Panorama Avenue, Bathurst, NSW, 2795, Australia;(2) 3TU. Centre for Ethics and Technology, University of Twente, Twente, Netherlands |
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Abstract: | This paper provides a general philosophical groundwork for the theoretical and applied normative evaluation of information
generally and digital information specifically in relation to the good life. The overall aim of the paper is to address the
question of how Information Ethics and computer ethics more generally can be expanded to include more centrally the issue
of how and to what extent information relates and contributes to the quality of life or the good life, for individuals and for society. To answer that question, the paper explores and provides by way of a theoretical groundwork
for further research, the concept of wisdom understood as a type of meta-knowledge as well as a type of meta-virtue, which can enable one to both know in principle what a good life is and how to successfully apply that knowledge in living
such a life in practice. This answer will be based on the main argument presented in this paper that the notion of wisdom understood as being at once a meta-epistemological, meta-axiological and meta-eudemonic concept, provides the essential conceptual link between information on the one hand and the good life on the other. If, as
we are told, this is the Age of Information, both the theoretical examination and analysis of the question of how information
relates to the good life and the provision of an adequate answer to that question are essential for developing a deeper understanding
of how to evaluate the theoretical and practical implications and ramifications of information for the good life, for individuals
and societies generally. |
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