Chapter 44: The Practitioner from Within: Revisiting the virtues By Frances S. Grodzinsky
April 14, 2009
Chapter 44: The Practitioner from Within:
Revisiting the virtues
By Frances S. Grodzinsky
Book: Cyberethics
Library Reference: Not Applicable
Quote:
“It is difficult to get from youth up a right training from virtue if one has not been brought up under right laws”
This means that youth should be educated. It is not so simple to guide him to all the theories. Still, the best way is to let him understand the theories and approach needed in order for him to grow.
Learning Expectation:
I expect to learn many things from this chapter since this would be the last chapter. Also, I want to know the title itself and the ideas that this author generated.
Review:
This chapter first discussed the character forming and action guiding theories. It is said that character forming is the most crucial since this is where a person would develop his character. A person’s decision would always lies on his attitude and not with the guiding theories. No one would first think of the theories he learned from high school, elementary and even college. He would always consider his characteristics. The character forming is more important than guiding rules since people would always rely on his character and not the guiding rules.
The biggest problem in the field of IT is that each theory is considered as separate from each other. I agree with this because in this chapter, this divides into different areas such as privacy, anonymity and etc. They are not given relation by all the authors. The result of this separation is a vast and broad theories that taking considerations as separate from each other.
This chapter also revisits the theories that were discussed in this book, cyberethics such as privacy, security, anonymity, piracy and etc. They are given different views and different ideas. I find out that even though some have similar topics which are privacy, I have seen the difference among the other philosophers. In that, I realized that it has large and broad scope. Also, I learned that there is no right and wrong since sometimes the words or belief of some of the philosophers varies or have conflict with other philosophers. There is a need to integrate all what they are saying in order for the reader to better understand their saying.
What I’ve learned:
I learned basically the virtues of practitioner. I learned what should each individual would expect for him to do in his field.
I learned the character forming and action guiding theories. I have seen their similarities. There are guiding rules in order for a person to develop his character into a good and ideal person. But still, the important thing is the character forming since you will be the one to decide what you should do in ethical situations.
Integrative questions:
1) What is Character Forming?
2) What is Action-Guiding Theories?
3) What is their difference?
4) What are their similarities?
5) What do you learn from this chapter?
