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WeMust Talk!. Ethical Discourses as Good Practice in Informatics and Media Education

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1. Introduction

Classical logic has a long tradition of monologic reasoning. We start with some observed facts and axioms, apply some rules of deduction and present a "proven" truth - ali in a monolog. Religions based on script behave in a similar pattern by deducing moral judgements from given (presumably divine) starting points like >Ten Commandments

In pluralistic societies such a monologic attitude faces limits very soon. Different opinions oppose each other even if they are logically sound in their deduction. This may be a result of different perceptions of facts as well as different starting points from different valué choices, or traditions of interpretation. It may be also a question of discursive power, where logical deductions may be ignored or dampened by dogmatic views or the desire to domínate.

In a long development law systems rely, in some contrast to a religious deduction, on a discursive, dialectical process of proponent and opponent leading to some more or less conclusive verdict. Again these verdicts depend on the correct application of

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logic, a common interpretation of facts as observations, or shorter on acceptable arguments. Legal processes depend on the formalization of arguments, their exchange and judgment as deduction from written law, facts, and interpretations. Of course, this happens in a context of cultural, moral and legal valúes, inherent to every society, but also more and more formalized in intercultural, global processes and agreements -think of international law, especially of international law of war in some ethical verdicts.

In a pluralistic society we all have to observe the law - transcending existing laws is an exceptional situation. That is an unusual challenge in everyday professional demands of moral judgements, and is therefore beyond the presented remarks on ethics educations for professionals in IT and digital media. While the legal framework is more or less fixed and therefore usually beyond ethical controversies, there is still an enormous body of moral dilemmas. In democratic societies that depends on a plurality of moral valué systems and ethical standpoints as well as an different and opposing interests of its members. We must find ways to clarify elements of controversy, discuss it, and prepare it for democratic moral judgements based on (probably) diverging ethical valuation. To accept, defend and develop such processes we should edúcate our society not only in the deepening of inherited and learned methods of moral evaluation (religión, culture, law, traditions...) but also in performing a wider process...

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