Test 1 Flashcards
(46 cards)
Ethics
Morality
Conceptual Clarity
Are there any concepts(idea) involved in this case study that would be useful to clarify?
Design Analogy
Like design, moral choices often have multiple alternate choices
“The unexamined life is not worth living”
Socrates
Virtue Ethics
Based on personal virtues
Profession
Advance skills or expertise
Ancient Philosophy
Gods
Micro ethical issues
decisions made by individual or companies
Self-realization Ethics
Right action consists in seeking self-fulfillment
Informed about facts
What factual inquiries do you think you might need in making a reliable judgement about the case?
What is autonomy
Independent, self-determining, moral awareness, moral concerns
Steps in resolving ethical delimmas
- Moral Clarity
- Conceptual Clarity
- Informed about the facts
- Informed about the actions
- Best decision
Rule-Utilitarianism
Society Setting
Act-Utilitarianism
Specific Situation
Emotivism
Moral statements that are marely use to express emotions to try to influence other people’s behavior
Sophia
Wisdom
Ethical subjectivism
Moral judgement that marely express feelings and attitudes, not belifs that can be justified or unjustified by appleal to moral reasons
Intrinsic Good
Things that are in itself, good
Moral responsibility
obligations, blameworthiness, praiseworthiness
Descriptive Ethics
How things are
Ethical Egoism
Act on our own desires
Theories about motivation
General perspectives on what motivates engineers and others, by what is good for them
Moral clarity
What is the moral dilemma? be specific, rights, responsibilities, duties, good consequences
Silo mentality
Keeping information and discussion secret rather then sharing it