Human Rights in an Information Age: A Philosophical Analysis - Softcover

Walters, Gregory J.

 
9780802085504: Human Rights in an Information Age: A Philosophical Analysis
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0802085504 ISBN 13: 9780802085504
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2002

Synopsis

How can we balance new information technology practices with human rights? In Human Rights in an Information Age, Gregory Walters analyses Canadian and global information highway policy and practices regarding the Internet, e-commerce, public health and safety, privacy and security, and information warfare from a philosophical, human rights framework that views freedom and well-being as the necessary conditions of human action. Walters situates the information age revolution within the broader historical and technological situation of modernity. Drawing on the action-based philosophical human rights framework of Alan Gewirth, Walters applies the Principle of Generic Consistency to a host of policy issues, and argues that values of mutuality, trust, and social solidarity are increasingly vital to the promotion and protection of human dignity and human rights in the information age.

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About the Author

Gregory J. Walters is Professor of Ethics at Saint Paul University.

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Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Publication date
2002
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0802085504
ISBN 13 
9780802085504
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
320

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