Moral risks and government policy in South Africa in the context of 4IR
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11419945 |
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| Authors | John Ostrowick (Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 195-212 |
| Publication date | 2021-04-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South African Journal of Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0258-0136 • E-ISSN: 2073-4867 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02580136.2021.1921933 |
| OpenAlex | W3176411676 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 34 |
South Africa, among other nations in Africa, most notably Kenya, Nigeria and Rwanda, is aiming to take a lead in the implementation of policy intended to address the challenges represented by the fourth Industrial Revolution. We take the South African Constitution’s Bill of Rights as our guide on the moral obligations of the government, from the logic of both consequentialist and deontological moral frameworks. With this in mind, we consider whether the South African government’s initiatives involve moral risks, in virtue of neglecting some threats posed by new technologies. In particular, we identify biological technologies – specifically transhumanist technologies – as posing special risks, and argue that we need to balance the need for dignity, equality and privacy, which the technologies seem to threaten, against the promise of flourishing that the technologies seem to offer
Constitution · Dignity · Environmental ethics · Flourishing · Law and economics · Political science · Sociology · Virtue · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI · Law · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations · Social Psychology · Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
| Highly cited | No |
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