ETHIK
Ethics
Ethical questions in information security. Building solid arguments for responsible decision-making. Critical thinking through in-depth reflection. Social, societal and moral implications of cyber security in daily life contexts.
About this sector
Ethics. The module that asks not can we build it but should we, and gives you the vocabulary to argue either way. It starts with the foundations — values and norms, morality versus ethics, what makes a situation a genuine dilemma — and with the three classical moral theories every later debate reaches for: virtue ethics (what kind of person should I be?), deontology / duty ethics (what am I obliged to do?) and consequentialism (what outcome should I bring about?). From there it works outwards into business ethics (stakeholders, corporate responsibility, the ethics of global trade) and then through one applied field after another: information systems and value-based design, social media and democracy, surveillance in public space, gambling and dark patterns, police ethics, medical ethics, AI ethics, climate ethics and consumer ethics.