This document discusses ethics related to knowledge and knowledge-based societies. It addresses several key ideas: 1) Knowledge can be used for both virtue and power, and increasing data collection could strengthen peace or lead to conflict, depending on how it is used. 2) A knowledge-based society aims to use information and communication technologies to improve quality of life, but may also risk social isolation and creating a manipulated "hyper-reality." 3) To apply knowledge ethically, states, scholars, and citizens should work to eliminate information gaps and share knowledge responsibly to enhance life quality for all members of society in a peaceful manner.

1. Ethics on Knowledge
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2. Knowledge
• Man is a rational man
• Nous can analysis, synthesis, verify and insight
• Good ability of nous is wisdom
• Insight to create the sophisticating is
techne/ars
• Know only to copying or correct problem is
rhompeira/technique
• Know to work well but not to improve for the
new is peira/skill

3. Knowledge and KBS
• Francis Bacon (1561-1625) proposed
“Knowledge is power” as the key to success of
the modernizing period from Middle Ages.
• new generation with technology in hand, looks
for more and more information at the quicker
rate to get advantage.

4. Knowledge Based Society
• KBS is a concept of the new quality society.
• an alternative for a success of information and
communication technology for a better
society.
• the society which humankind needs and is
available for peace and freedom to develop
the quality of life.

5. status
• “Knowledge is virtue” seem to give the key to confidence.
• the enlarging data bank will ensure more virtue which could imply
that peace will be more strengthened.
• knowledge is power was critiqued by Foucault that it was the power
of the politicians to lure the public within their right to govern.
• the data collecting is seen as the weapon collecting which history
had showed more than once, will lead the power to threaten the
people and bring war.
• the data bank would be the cause of revolution and conflict in the
near future.

6. Philosophical paradigm
The development of thought
• Primitive paradigm = everything up to On-High
• Ancient paradigm = everything up to the rule
• Medieval paradigm = everything up to the religion
• Modern paradigm = everything up to the
scientific method
• Postmodern paradigm = everything purposes to the
development of quality of life ,
detachment to knowledge network

7. 5 paradigms on Knowledge
• Primitive = knowledge about the above
• Ancient = knowledge to set the rule or about the rule
• Medieval = knowledge about the text and the rule of the
religion
• Modern = scientific knowledge
• Extreme Postmodern = set of knowledge
• Moderate Postmodern = knowledge for improving the
quality of life

8. Ethical intellectualism
• Socrates, used the form “virtue is knowledge”
• more knowledge for more choice to do good conduct
• way to the good life , happiness is promoted by doing what is right.
 virtue is knowledge = knowledge is virtue
 someone could imply that more knowledge means more virtue.
Bacon’s Knowledge is power
Database
Competition

9. Heideggerian's philosophy
• Dasein
• Being in the world
• Subject-Object relation = pure relation
• Technology enframing

10. Human nature
1. Knowledge make confidence
2. Intellectual represent in culture
3. K Behavior
4. Favor new knowledge and like to transfer to
the others
5. more education to stop violence

11. Affirmations of knowledge
1. Ethical intellectualism of Socrates “virtue is
knowledge”.
2. Bacon’s Knowledge is power.
3. Knower is the key to conduct peace.
4. Class gap is eliminate by education.
5. New technology could provide the capacity of
knowledge collecting.
6. Politicians as Foucault indicate to block the people to
the knowledge.

12. new social problems
• Social isolation and technology enframing
• Hyper-reality of KBS
• State favored enlarge database to preserve their power

13. Virtue is knowledge
• False meaning of “knowledge is virtue”
• No peace take permanently
• Animal farm and 1984 books are indicate the
peace fragile by the knower
• New generation collected more data to take
advantage than the other

14. Applicating the Knowledge
• the state politician, scholars and quality
citizen of any country had to adjust
themselves to employ knowledge for the well
being.
• To eliminate the gap between the info rich and
info poor by broad the accessibility to
information enables those who are
marginalized and impoverished.

15. Application of ethics on Knowledge
• The moderate postmodern KBS is promote the
database for the public and private and
persuade to share and take responsibility for
the enhancing the quality of life.
• The optimum level of citizen literacy, advance
education, life-long study would be promoted
and for solving conflicts in a wise and peaceful
way.
• Good citizen bring to good society and it’s
mean that peace take place.