This book deals with ethics and value systems as they relate to technical and scientific discourse. While it covers many traditional moral theories from classical to contemporary times, it also asserts that ethics is a personal matter of governance.

The book presents students with how to engage in thinking about these theories and apply them to their own discourse. The fact that there are no easy answers to ethical questions is emphasized.

Topics covered include how and why information is acquired and how it will be used; how technical terminology is transformed into value perspectives; how science and technology can be used to raise questionable values ​​or to serve values ​​that are not apparent in discourse.