Ethics and ICTs Beyond Analytic and Continental Philosophy

Abstract

This article aims to develop an ethical reflection on ICTs with an in-depth analysis on three topics that will introduce new elements to the history of thought. First of all, I will analyse the categorical difference between “technique” and “technology”, and the novelties that this concept expresses. Then I will analyse the changes that occur today in the field of communication: in particular, the transformation of the function of communication, which has moved from data transmission to the construction of environments. Finally, I will outline the reasons why it is necessary today, in the face of these new scenarios, to rethink ethics as a philosophical discipline, by going even beyond the setting of the so-called “continental philosophy”, as well as the approach taken by “analytic philosophy”.