Introducing Ethics in Information and Computer Sciences
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## Contents

- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 Good, bad, right or wrong?
  - 1.1 ‘People, not guns, kill people’?
  - 1.2 Ethical examples
  - 1.3 Your thoughts
  - 1.4 What is ethics?
  - 1.5 Reasons
  - 1.6 Final vocabulary
  - 1.7 Ideology
  - 1.8 ‘Ethics’, ‘ethical’ and authority
  - 1.9 Final vocabularies in context
  - 1.10 The story so far
- 2 It's not all Greek to me!
  - 2.1 Introduction
  - 2.2 Three Greek dialogues
  - 2.3 Style and rhetoric
  - 2.4 Relationships and conduct
  - 2.5 The story so far
- 3 Relationships, emotions and ethics
  - 3.1 Introduction
  - 3.2 Relationships and ethics
  - 3.3 Emotions and judgements
  - 3.4 Negotiation and adaptation
  - 3.5 The story so far
- 4 Ethics everyday
  - 4.1 Introduction
  - 4.2 The good, the bad and the loyal
  - 4.3 Can theft be right?
  - 4.4 Legitimacy vs rights
  - 4.5 Torture
  - 4.6 What matters?
  - 4.7 The story so far
- 5 Landscape with Weapon: an allegory
  - 5.1 Introduction
  - 5.2 The characters
  - 5.3 Ethics and ethos: ‘does mum know?’
  - 5.4 Intellectual property rights and value
  - 5.5 Rhetorical devices
  - 5.6 Identification
  - 5.7 The story so far
  - 5.8 Rights
  - 5.9 Ethical reasoning
  - 5.10 Conscience
  - 5.11 Promises
  - 5.12 Interests
  - 5.13 The final Act
- 6 Conclusion
- 7 Summary
- Keep on learning
- References
- Acknowledgements

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