Reading Time: 5 minutesWhat if Ethics Does Not Exist? This provocative piece suggests that ethics has no meaning in absolute terms, but it is just a by-product of social activities. It also discusses some plausible practical consequences. What...
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Reading Time: 12 minutesCOVID-19 Vaccine Passports – between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea Vaccinations have been rolling out now in many countries. There is a real interest in how we can move out again with some...
Reading Time: 5 minutesSelf-Esteem and Ethics Be yourself, all the other personalities are already taken – Oscar Wilde How to link self-esteem to ethics? To understand how self-esteem can mesh with the notion of ethics, it is important...
Back to Future #1: Heinz von Foerster (1911-2002) – “Ethics cannot be articulated! Ethics is acted.”
Back to Future #1: Heinz von Foerster (1911-2002) – “Ethics cannot be articulated! Ethics is acted.”
Reading Time: 10 minutesHEINZ VON FOERSTER (1911-2002) Austrian-American “Weltmensch” Born in the imperial Vienna in 1911, Heinz von Foerster, was throughout his long life blessed with the legendary Viennese flair and humor. He described himself as...
Reading Time: 10 minutesThe robots Sophia, Ai-da, Erica and other gynoids Female robots, gynoids, fembots : on a mission to soften the sharp metallic edges University of Oxford, Cambridge 2019. The artist is addressing the crowd while looking...
Reading Time: 7 minutesThe “uncanny valley” in robotics In 1970, the Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori from the Tokyo Institute of Technology coinded the concept of the “uncanny valley”. In robotics, the “uncanny valley” is a hypothesis : “We...
Reading Time: 4 minutesAristotle, father of classical Western ethics Aristote and Happiness Born in 384 BC, in Stagira, a son of a family of doctors, Aristotle was the disciple of Plato. He founded his own school, the Lyceum,...
Reading Time: 5 minutes5 ethical theories for modern times From Aristote to Floridi Obviously, the first of the 5 ethical theories listed in this article is Aristotle’s virtue ethics. He is the founding father of Western ethics and...
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe mission that the author has given himself: the age of confusion that is living between "all-changism" and "nothing-fairism" seeks an answer in ethics. He sees an ethics is everywhere even in the "ethical garbage".
Reading Time: < 1 minutePourquoi l'iA a besoin de l'éthique?