Since entering the information age, the emergence of the Internet has greatly extended human awareness and brought about a great degree of impact and influence on the material and spiritual world of mankind. What also ensues are many ethical problems in the era of big data, such as the infringement of personal privacy, data discrimination, the gradual dissolution of human individuality, the loss of human subjective values, and the manipulation of free will, etc.. A series of problems that need to be critiqued and solved. As a practical philosophy directly pointing to the self-generation and creation of individuals, how should ethics examine the impact of this new network world on human beings in the era of big data? It has become a necessity to reflect on and criticize the question of the value of human existence in the current big data environment under new tools, new technologies and new perspectives.
Youjun Ji (2024) studied this question.