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Chapter 45 Title: Foundations of Information Ethics Quote: “IE is too philosophical in the worst sense of the world.” Expectations: I expect to learn more about Information Ethics (IE), its four stages and four important principles. Book Review: This chapter explains about the foundations of information ethics. It has three different stages; first one is IE as an ethics of informational resources, secondly, IE as an ethics of informational products. Third stage is IE as an ethics of the informational environment and lastly is information ethics as a macro ethics. IE is described as a resource, product, and environment and has a big role in ethics in this chapter. There are also three steps that IE needs to climb like bringing together the three informational arrows, considering the whole information cycle and analyzing all entities that are involved. IE also have four moral principles which include the dos and don’ts. Things I have learned: I have learned the different stages of IE and its important principles. Integrity Questions: 1. Who is Luciano Floridi? 2. What is a transition system? 3. What are the four stages of information ethics? 4. What are moral agents and human agents?

5. What are the four moral principles that may guide the actions of homo poieticus? 6. What are the two recurrent objections against IE?