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Re visiting Ethics: Pure & Applied
To give a clear-cut answer is impossibility but we must re-visit the field of ethics in order to address such questions from computer ethics perspective. Ethics with theories of how to live is Normative. Save some interest in artifacts and the politics and design of technology STS has maintained a distance from the big issues of ethics. Even then there is some kind of an ‘ethical turn' in technology .Computer ethics too can be potent political face in this direction
Although one can not ascertain what is the exact nature of this particular turn to ethics, is it ,”A Right turn? A Left turn? A wrong turn? A U-turn?, “for Nicholas Pagan at least, this much is certain that, “ Ethics is back in literary studies, philosophy, and political theory. Where critiques of universal man and the autonomous human subject had, in recent years, produced a resistance to ethics in many fields of scholarship, today these critiques have generated a crossover among disciplines and led to theories and practices that see and do ethics otherwise. The de-centering of the subject, the contributors to this volume suggest, has brought about a re-centering of the ethical. Computer ethics is a part of this “contemporary turn to ethics” in literary theory, the humanities, challenging the legitimacy of the old order, “seeking emancipatory focus of life.” 2
2 Nicholas Pagan, Spring 2002,”Editorial Review “of M.Garber and Rebecca L.Walkowitz authored The Turn to Ethics (CultureWork: A Book Series from the Center for Literacy and Cultural Studies at Harvard) in http://www.amazon.com/Turn-Ethics-CultureWork-Literacy-Cultural/dp/0415922267(accessed October 2010)