The Rational Argument Of The Virtue Of Forgetting In The All-Media Era

From the birth of human civilization,memory occupied a very important position.Ancient Greek philosophers regarded memory as a virtue,but regarded forgetting as a defect.However,in the all-media era,because of the convenience of information production and transmission,people’s activities rely on digital media,fragmented behavior information is recorded cumulatively.Therefore,eternal memory becomes possible,resulting in privacy violation,the inability to freely express and develop themselves.Thus,some data scientists put forward " the virtue of forgetting ".Unfortunately,few scholars discussed the virtue of forgetting from the perspective of ethics.This paper discusses the moral rationality of forgetting virtue in the context of the all-media era and Chinese culture.The virtue of forgetting is a concept formed under the background of a specific era.In the present of scientific and technological progress,forgetting is endowed with new positive characteristics and contains rich connotations of respect and development of human beings.This dissertation try to strengthen the dialogue among the communication,ethics and the public,and also to provide ideas for constructing the all media communication system and promoting the moral practice of the information subject.The dissertation is mainly divided into three parts.Firstly,analyze the changes in the concept of virtue,memory and forgetting in different ages,to demonstrate that the specific connotation and extension of virtue are constantly changing in the heroic age,city-state age,medieval and modern society.Different eras focus on different specific virtues.In the traditional era,human information recording and storage mainly relied on biological memory.Memory was regarded as a excellent ability.But in all-media era,human mainly use external media to storage memory.Permanent memory brings many risks.The relationship among virtue,memory and forgetting has changed.Secondly,to demonstrate the virtue of forgetting in all-media era is possible.The virtue of forgetting has three specific connotations:respect,forgiveness and wisdom.It is proved that the virtue of forgetting is the moderate quality that people have when they choose digital information.The virtue of forgetting has many values in all media age,such as teachability,community good and the non-technical nature.It is also a contemporary validation of McIntyre’s moral rationality theory.Finally,to explore the education and practice of the virtue of forgetting.Cultivating the virtue of forgetting in the community practice.Applying traditional moral perspectives is important.Cultivating a moral personality from the holistic perspective and improving media literacy from the technicality perspective.Practicing in the path of industry consciousness and social regulations.The dissertation also reflects on the limitations of applied ethics such as media ethics.Adding the research results of the new natural scientific community as a supplementary argument,discussing that the virtue of forgetting can be studied from the understanding of virtue ethics and natural science in the future.Looking forward to the mutual promotion and deep integration of disciplines.