COMPUTER ETHICS AND SECURITY
ETHICS IN COMPUTING
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The 17th century philosopher and mathematician, ____ ____, went as far as to suggest that all animals were nothing more than automata (machines made of muscle and bone) and incapable of true thought. He also famously said:“I think therefore I am”
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René Descartes
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Immanuel Kant
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -cogito, ergo sum, (Latin: “I think, therefore I am) dictum coined by the French mathematician and philosopher René Descartes in his Discourse on Method (1637) as a first step in demonstrating the attainability of certain knowledge.
Detailed explanation-2: -In part V of the “Discourse on the Method, ‘’ Descartes elaborates on the endowment of language and reason in humans, and compares it to that of animals and machines built by man. The elaboration is used by Descartes to demonstrate the distinction between men and animals or machines.
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