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Privacy & Personality

Privacy & Personality

Chapman, John W.

Paperback

Cognition

ISBN10: 0202309797
ISBN13: 9780202309798
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 15 2007
Pages: 274
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.34 Depth: 8.87
Language: English

Like many concepts, privacy has a commonly accepted core of meaning with an indefinite or variable periphery. Some would wish to enlarge the core. It would be pointless to attempt to establish a definition by way of introduction to a series of essays that themselves provide no single definition. But the themes of freedom, justice, rational choice, and community always seem to appear in any discussion of privacy. Privacy is a penultimate good. Perhaps, in certain usages--such as autonomy--it is an ultimate good, desirable for its own sake and grounded on nothing more final. Of course, the right of privacy may sometimes be asserted to conceal illegal or immoral acts. When that occurs, it appears to be put to an instrumental use. But, insofar as we justify such claims, it is not because they prevent the detection of immorality or violations of the law. Rather, at least in the case of illegal acts, it is because the means being challenged themselves violate privacy.

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