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How can we balance new information technology practices with human rights? In this work, Gregory Walters analyzes Canadian and global information highway policy and practices regarding the Internet, e-commerce, public health and safety, privacy and security, and information warfare, using a philosophical 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.

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Author:   Gregory J. Walters
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.694kg
ISBN:  

9780802035837

ISBN 10:   0802035833
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   15 September 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Replaced By:   9780802085504
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product
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Gregory J. Walters is Professor of Ethics at Saint Paul University.

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