Intercultural information ethics (Capurro) makes a lot sense to me. And I am particularly interested in looking into how the Eastern and Western philosophical traditions will inform information ethics topics.
Soraj Hongladarom (2016). A Buddhist theory of privacy . Singapore: Springer.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/288835248_A_Buddhist_Theory_of_Privacy
Oh wow this looks amazing. Hadn’t encountered that before.
From the abstract:
The main idea is that privacy should be grounded, not on the metaphysical presupposition that the individual self fully exists as a subsistent metaphysical entity who deserves dignity and respect, but on the idea that, even though the individual is not a fully subsisting metaphysical entity, their privacy should still be maintained because doing so will promote a set of goals and values that are desirable and are conducive to certain ends.
The exciting thing about this to me is that it articulates a coherent sense of privacy despite not reifying the individual. Regardless of one’s stance on or familiarity with Buddhist thought (I’m say I’m ~conversant), this connects to recent themes of Western scholarship like critiques of neoliberalism, posthumanism, new historical materialism, etc. All of this work de-centers (or in the Buddhist case explicitly denies) the individual, and a challenge on the western side has been to recover things like ethics and politics. Buddhism has a much deeper history of ethical thought, which might prove inspirational.
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