Human Rights in an Information Age: A Philosophical Analysis

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University of Toronto Press, Jan 1, 2001 - Philosophy - 335 pages

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.

 

Contents

Introduction
3
Purpose and Methodology
10
The Conceptual Importance of Information to Human Rights
18
The Philosophical Framework
26
Information Highway Policy and ECommerce Strategy
53
The Informational Economy Work and Productive Agency
80
The Historical Situation
117
An Ethical Analysis
150
Information Warfare
186
Information Warfare and Deterrence
218
Towards a Global Community of Rights
238
Notes
255
References
277
Index
313
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About the author (2001)

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

Bibliographic information

TitleHuman Rights in an Information Age: A Philosophical Analysis
G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series
AuthorGregory J. Walters
Editionreprint
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press, 2001
ISBN0802085504, 9780802085504
Length335 pages
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Philosophy / General
Political Science / Civil Rights
Political Science / Human Rights
  
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