The Logic of Morality in the Network Society: A Criticism

This paper aims to offer a critique on the treatment of morality and moral problems in the network society through the use of alternative explanation. The main argument advanced in this paper is that despite augmenting human abilities to organize and integrate, technological progress in the network society have continued to diminish the individual’s ability to understand complex phenomena such as morality while offering no concrete solution to the myriad of moral problems that have existed for some time. The paper concludes that the persistent suppression and exclusion of true morality as opposed to a simulacra of morality from peoples’ lives in the network society is not caused by the level of sophistication achieved in technology per se but by the logic governing the network society, which reduces people’s understanding of complex phenomenon as well as magnifying and facilitating deviant acts and practices in society. As a solution, the paper recommends a restoration of the people’s understanding and the re-introduction of moral virtues in people’s lives as a way of restraining the irrational and deceptive character of the network-capitalism’s logic without closing any doors to the progress achieved in science and technology.