2 Kommentare zu “(Deutsch) Ethik und Informatik”

1. Chris Wood (Tuesday 10 February 2009)

   See above “Allen Menschen ist bewusst, dass Ethik eine subjektive wie eine objektive Komponente hat”.
   I do not accept this. My piece “Ethics beyond Humanism” was partly an attempt to find such an objective component. But I did not fully convince myself, and most people seem to disagree. Most ethical ideas are totally subjective, the subjects being humans, or some even smaller group. One might believe that an action leading to the destruction of the universe would be unethical, but I am not really sure about that. We Europeans seem to have very privileged lives just now. It is not hard to believe (as plenty of philosophers have) that the normal situation is misery (especially for other animals).

2. Chris Wood (Wednesday 11 February 2009)

   There is a larger group of people who do not divide ethics into subjective and objective components, namely seriously religious people. They believe that ethics are defined by God. So, from a human point of view they are entirely objective, (though perhaps hard to find out). I suppose that, from God’s point of view they may be entirely subjective. But probably God cannot have a point of view, since his “view” encompasses everything.

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