MORAL PROGRESS IN THE VIRTUAL SPACE: FROM THE SIGNIFICANT OTHER TO THE GENERALIZED OTHER
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https://doi.org/10.5944/endoxa.51.2023.27906Keywords:
Otro significante, Otro generalizado, Peter L Berger, Thomas Luckmann, Sociología de conocimiento, George H. Mead, Ética virtual.Abstract
The increasing use of virtual space invites ethical reflection on revealed
forms of moral progress. Social scientist, psychologists and philosophers are not yet able to provide conclusions regarding its ethical implications. In particular, there have been few attempts to explore how the sociology of knowledge might examine these developments. To address this lacuna, this paper investigates the moral progress of
online relationships by means of Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann’s theory of The Social Construction of Reality, which holds that the significant other plays a key role in the character building of the individual. This paper argues in favor of a new belief:
cyberspace creates ways of relating that produce moral progress. On one hand, the multiplicity of significant others will represent roadblocks for individuals’ socialization, forcing them to develop ethical skills to overcome moral disorder.
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