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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

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.

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Hoffmann Anna Lauren (2018) Countercultures of data. Philosophy & Technology 31 (2).

Pages: 283-292

DOI: 10.1007/s13347-017-0269-z

Full citation:

Curzer Howard J. (2018) „Yesterday's virtue ethicists meet tomorrow's high tech: a critical response to Technology and the virtues by Shannon Vallor“. Philosophy & Technology 31 (2), 283–292.