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Evil Online (Hardcover)
Dean Cocking, Jeroen van den Hoven
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"I am delighted to offer my highest praise to Dean Cocking and
Jeroen van den Hoven's brilliant new book, Evil Online. The
confrontation between good and evil occupies a central place in the
challenges facing our human nature, and this creative investigation
into the spread of evil by means of all-powerful new technologies
raises fundamental questions about our morality and values. Cocking
and Van den Hoven's account of the moral fog of evil forces us to
face both the demons within each of us as well as the demons all
around us. In the end, we are all enriched by their perceptive
analyses." —Phil Zimbardo, Professor Emeritus of
Psychology, Stanford University Principal Investigator, Stanford
Prison Experiment "The internet offers new and deeply concerning
opportunities for immorality, much of it shocking and extreme. This
volume explains with great insight and clarity the corrupting
nature of the internet and the moral confusion it has produced. It
will play a vital role in the growing debate about how to balance
the benefits of the internet against the risks it poses to all of
us. Evil Online is an excellent book." —Roger
Crisp, Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Oxford We
now live in an era defined by the ubiquity of the internet. From
our everyday engagement with social media to trolls on forums and
the emergence of the dark web, the internet is a space
characterized by unreality, isolation, anonymity, objectification,
and rampant self-obsession—the perfect breeding ground for new,
unprecedented manifestations of evil. Evil Online is
the first comprehensive analysis of evil and moral character in
relation to our increasingly online lives. Chapters consider
traditional ideas around the phenomenon of evil in moral philosophy
and explore how the dawn of the internet has presented
unprecedented challenges to older theoretical approaches. Cocking
and Van den Hoven propose that a growing sense of moral
confusion—moral fog—pushes otherwise ordinary, normal people
toward evildoing, and that values basic to moral life such as
autonomy, intimacy, trust, and privacy are put at risk by online
platforms and new technologies. This new theory of evildoing offers
fresh insight into the moral character of the individual, and opens
the way for a burgeoning new area of social thought. A
comprehensive analysis of an emerging and disturbing social
phenomenon, Evil Online examines the morally troubling
aspects of the internet in our society. Written not only for
academics in the fields of philosophy, psychology, information
science, and social science, Evil Online is accessible
and compelling reading for anyone interested in understanding the
emergence of evil in our digitally-dominated world.
Professionals, it is said, have no use for simple lists of virtues
and vices. The complexities and constraints of professional roles
create peculiar moral demands on the people who occupy them, and
traits that are vices in ordinary life are praised as virtues in
the context of professional roles. Should this disturb us, or is it
naive to presume that things should be otherwise? Taking medical
and legal practice as key examples, Justin Oakley and Dean Cocking
develop a rigorous articulation and defence of virtue ethics,
contrasting it with other types of character-based ethical theories
and showing that it offers a promising new approach to the ethics
of professional roles. They provide insights into the central
notions of professional detachment, professional integrity, and
moral character in professional life, and demonstrate how a
virtue-based approach can help us better understand what ethical
professional-client relationships would be like.
Taking medical and legal practice as key examples, the authors develop a rigorous articulation and defence of virtue ethics, contrasting it with other types of character-based ethical theories and showing that it offers a promising new approach to the ethics of professional roles. They provide insights into the central notions of professional detachment, professional integrity, and moral character in professional life, and demonstrate how a virtue-based approach can help us better understand what ethical professional-client relationships would be like.
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