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2013 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Ethics and Ethical Analysis
Author : Joseph Migga Kizza
Published in: Ethical and Social Issues in the Information Age
Publisher: Springer London
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This chapter builds upon
Chap. 2
in setting up the philosophical framework and analysis tools for discussing moral theories and problems in ethical relativism. We discuss the moral and ethical premises and their corresponding values in the changing technology arena. In particular, we give two fitting definitions of ethics: the traditional definition of ethics and the functional definition of ethics as involving a value mapping. We discuss describe ethical decision making as a process of making a decision which may result in one or more moral conflicts. We end the chapter with a list of codes of ethics in use by different professional organizations.