Yesterday's virtue ethicists meet tomorrow's high tech

a critical response to Technology and the virtues by Shannon Vallor

Howard J. Curzer

pp. 283-292

in: Anna L. Hoffmann (ed), Countercultures of data, Philosophy & Technology 31 (2), 2018.

Abstract

Vallor lists and describes seven complex features of moral self-cultivation shared by Aristotelian, Confucian, and Buddhist traditions, a dozen virtues which technology renders particularly important, and seven threats to these virtues. Responding to one of Vallor's challenges, I offer eight ways in which these virtues must be transformed in light of our technology. Finally, I list four further challenges to virtue ethics posed by technology.

Cited authors

Aristoteles

Vallor Shannon