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DISCOURSE ETHICS AS A MEANS FOR RESOLVING INFORMATION ETHICS DILEMMAS?

Rainer Kuhlen
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Rainer Kuhlen
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code of conduct
code of ethics
librarians
Dilemmas
discourse ethics
professional ethics
deontology
media ethics
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Global ethics
Economic ethics
Labour/professional ethics
Technology ethics
Cultural ethics
Media/communication/information ethics
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/217623
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What is a dilemma? In general, a problematic situation where two (and only two) solutions to a given problem both have undesirable consequences ─ whatever one decides, the result will be undesirable. This can be called a negative dilemma. Or a dilemma is a problematic situation where two (and only two) solutions to a given problem both have attractive desirable consequences ─ difficult or even impossible to decide which one is more desirable, and to choose both is not possible. This can be called a positive dilemma. How far could we apply this paradigm to the profession of librarians and try to resolve some antagonism by the mean of a discourse ethics?
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2014
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