Floridi [5] has identified general properties characteristic of Computer Ethics, finding it to be based on case studies, to be intrinsically decision-making oriented, to endorse a problem-solving approach, to be empirically grounded and to be logically argumentative. In this section we investigate what constraint those and other properties place on Information Ethics, the methodological foundation of Computer Ethics. We shall find that Information Ethics should satisfy four properties: stability, modularity, rigorousness and soundness.
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