ANALYSIS AND RISK OF OWNERSHIP 
LIBERTARIAN AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE ANARCHIST THE 19TH CENTURY IN THE USE OF AGENTS OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES Cover Image

ANALYSES ET RISQUES DE L’APPROPRIATION DE LA PHILOSOPHIE LIBERTAIRE ET ANARCHISTE DU 19IÈME SIÈCLE DANS LES USAGES DES ACTEURS DES NOUVELLES TECHNOL
ANALYSIS AND RISK OF OWNERSHIP LIBERTARIAN AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE ANARCHIST THE 19TH CENTURY IN THE USE OF AGENTS OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES

Author(s): Robert Voyer
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Editura Bibliotheca
Keywords: Free software; collective ethics; private ethics; virtual anarchy; Pascal orders.

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, we study the possible significant differences between individual ethics in business world and virtual world (social networks, undue downloads, dating sites adulterous, virtual worlds, etc.). To understand this paradoxical situation, we show that ethical principles, put into play in both contexts, are different in nature and period. First, we present the ideology of the free software world and the impact on the use of new technologies. In a second step, we propose show why morality in action in private activity of an employee in the free software world is an anarchist morality (Bakunin, Kropotkin, Guyau) deconstruction (Schopenhauer, Feuerbach, Nietzsche), individualist (Stirner) or even in some cases utilitarian (Bentham, Stuart Mill) of the 19th century; i.e. the moral of the social revolution of the real world at this period. For enterprises, there is a potential risk due to the difference of individual ethics by introducing in companies private habits (social networks for example). In a third step, we describe what our perspective specifically characterizes privacy ethics from free software and show potential risks for the company as well as significant gaps between rights and ethical duties of the employee to his organization. Next, we analyze why the radical change of status of certain moral values occurred during the 20th century has no real grip on ethical values in the world of new technologies adopting the model of free software. Finally, before concluding, we propose a conceptual model to understand better the reasons of the differences between the ethic in the private word ICT and these one in the professional world

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 2 (15)
  • Page Range: 60-70
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: French