| Ethics and the Professions | Notes | This is not a substitute for coming to class | Richard Lee |
| Philosophy 3103 | Copyright © 2007, Richard Lee | Autumn 2007 | |
1. "Privacy consists in being left alone." (p.217a)
Objection: "there are innumerable ways of failing to let a person alone which have nothing to do with his privacy." (p.217a)
2. "Privacy consists of a form of autonomy or control over significant personal matters." (p.217a)
Objection: "consider the example of a person who voluntarily divulges all sorts of intimate, personal, and undocumented information about herself to a friend. She is doubtless exercising control, in a paradigm sense of the term, over personal information about herself . . . But we would not and should not say that in doing so she is preserving or protecting her privacy." (p.217ab)
3. Privacy is the limitation on access to the self. (p.217b)
Objection: "it confuses privacy with the existential conditions that are necessary for its realization."