How does technology affect moral values?

It helps people become healthier, more educated, more loving of God and neighbor, and better at making moral decisions. A bad technology will do the opposite: make us sicker, less educated, less loving of others, and worse at making moral decisions.

What does it mean to decline morally?

1. to withhold or deny consent to do; refuse. 2. to refuse with courtesy. 3. to cause to slope or incline downward.

What is the relationship between ethics and technology?

Technology ethics is the application of ethical thinking to the practical concerns of technology. The reason technology ethics is growing in prominence is that new technologies give us more power to act, which means that we have to make choices we didn’t have to make before.

Does technology bring relevant changes in ethics?

The other one i.e. the pace of technological change also raises the question of ethics. New products make their way and leave the existing ones obsolete. In fact technological change and innovation is at the heart of consumerism, which is bad for economy and environment in general.

What are the moral problems related to technology?

In a recent interview you declared that the moral problems related to technology are associated with the use that humans will make of these technologies, i.e. whether they will be used for good or bad purposes. How would you define a good use of technology and a bad use of it?

What are the moral values in information recording?

2.1.1 Moral Values in Information Recording The control of information is power, and in an information economy such as we find ourselves today, it may be the ultimate form of political power. We live in a world rich in data and the technology to produce, record, and store vast amounts of this data has developed rapidly.

Is there a phenomenological approach to the ethics of Information Technology?

It should be noted that this entry will not directly address the phenomenological approach to the ethics of information technology since there is a detailed entry on this subject available (see the entry on phenomenological approaches to ethics and information technology ). 1. Introduction 2. The Moral Challenges of Information Technology 3.

Are things more morally flexible in different generations?

There are a lot of external factors, but yes, things are really very different and far more morally flexible. Knowledge@Wharton: The mindset of each generation is certainly different, but I would think morals would be something that would carry on through the generations.