Da liberdade clássica à liberdade cibernética: por uma reconstrução de valor

Abstract

This thesis deals with the problem of freedom in postmodernity. Freedom in postmodernity is a value built throughout the history and it ranges from political to individual freedom and their legal protection. Although its conceptualization is ample, from the reconstruction of its development, one arrives at the freedom in the hypermodernity, contained in the postmodernity, whose exercise also takes place in the cyberspace, hence of speaking in cybernetic freedom. It features different rules, as it does not find any match in the ethical field. Although affirmed and reaffirmed as a right in several normative instruments its effectiveness remains impaired. Considering it as a broad concept, the freedom in postmodernity and more specifically freedom in the information age covers also the cyberspace, which leads to the cybernetic freedom. The objective of this thesis is to tackle the problem of freedom in postmodernity by pointing out ways to reconstruct the value of freedom of information as well as the freedom itself. Ponderings over the postmodern era, hypermodernity, cyberspace and information society as well as analysis of freedom from the historical-philosophical perspective were conducted in the present thesis