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Human Rights in an Information Age

A Philosophical Analysis

by (author) Gregory J. Walters

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Aug 2001
Category
General, Civil Rights, Human Rights
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780802035837
    Publish Date
    Sep 2001
    List Price
    $86.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780802085504
    Publish Date
    Jun 2002
    List Price
    $50.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442675926
    Publish Date
    Aug 2001
    List Price
    $105.00

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How can we balance new information technology practices with human rights? In Human Rights in an Information Age, Gregory Walters analyses Canadian and global information highway policy and practices regarding the Internet, e-commerce, public health and safety, privacy and security, and information warfare from a philosophical, human rights 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.

About the author

Gregory J. Walters is Professor of Ethics at Saint Paul University.

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