African Values, Ethics, and Technology: Questions, Issues, and Approaches

ISBN-13: 9783030705527 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Okyere-Manu, Beatrice Dedaa

Opis

This book charts technological developments from an African ethical perspective. It explores the idea that while certain technologies have benefited Africans, the fact that these technologies were designed and produced in and for a different setting leads to conflicts with African ethical values. Written in a simple and engaging style, the authors apply an African ethical lens to themes such as: The Fourth Industrial Revolution, the moral status of technology, technology and sexual relations, and bioethics and technology.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Charting an African Perspective of Technological Innovation

Part I The Fourth Industrial Revolution and African Ethics

2. The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and Africa’s Future: Reflections from African Ethics

3. Africa in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: A status quaestionis, from the cultural to the phenomenological

Part II African Values, and Technology

4. African Reasons Why AI Should Not Maximize Utility

5. Values and Technological Development in an African Context

6. African Cultural Values, Practices and Modern Technology

Part III Technology, African Ethics and Sexual Relations

7. Shifting Intimate Sexual Relations from Humans to Machines: An African Indigenous Ethical Perspective

8. The Death of Isintu in Contemporary Technological Era: The Ethics of Sex Robots Among the Ndebele of Matabo

Part IV Technology, African Values and Human Relationship

9. The Importance of a Neo-African Communitarianism in Virtual Space: An Ethical Inquiry for the African Teenager

10. The Ambivalent Role of Technology on Human Relationships: An Afrocentric Exploration

11. Interrogating Social Media Group Communication’s Integrity: An African, Utilitarian Perspective

Part V Bioethics, African Values and Technology

12. Bioethics and Technology: An African Ethical Perspective

13. The Use of Sex Selection Reproductive Technology in Traditional African Societies: An Ethical Evaluation and a Case for Its Adaptation

14. Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Indigenous Akan Ethics: A Critical Analysis

Part VI African Religious Values and Technology

15. The Impact of Technologies on African Religions: A Theological Perspective

16. Technologization of Religion: The Unstoppable Revolution in the Zimbabwean Mainline Churches

O autorze

Beatrice Dedaa Okyere-Manu is Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics in the School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, where she is also the Director of the Ethics Studies Department.

Blurb

This book charts technological developments from an African ethical perspective. It explores the idea that while certain technologies have benefited Africans, the fact that these technologies were designed and produced in and for a different setting leads to conflicts with African ethical values. Written in a simple and engaging style, the authors apply an African ethical lens to themes such as: The Fourth Industrial Revolution, the moral status of technology, technology and sexual relations, and bioethics and technology.

Beatrice Dedaa Okyere-Manu is Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics in the School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, where she is also the Director of the Ethics Studies Department.