Test 1 Flashcards

(46 cards)

1
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Ethics

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Morality

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Conceptual Clarity

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Are there any concepts(idea) involved in this case study that would be useful to clarify?

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Design Analogy

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Like design, moral choices often have multiple alternate choices

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4
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“The unexamined life is not worth living”

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Socrates

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5
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Virtue Ethics

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Based on personal virtues

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6
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Profession

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Advance skills or expertise

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7
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Ancient Philosophy

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Gods

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8
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Micro ethical issues

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decisions made by individual or companies

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Self-realization Ethics

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Right action consists in seeking self-fulfillment

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Informed about facts

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What factual inquiries do you think you might need in making a reliable judgement about the case?

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What is autonomy

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Independent, self-determining, moral awareness, moral concerns

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12
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Steps in resolving ethical delimmas

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  1. Moral Clarity
  2. Conceptual Clarity
  3. Informed about the facts
  4. Informed about the actions
  5. Best decision
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13
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Rule-Utilitarianism

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Society Setting

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14
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Act-Utilitarianism

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Specific Situation

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15
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Emotivism

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Moral statements that are marely use to express emotions to try to influence other people’s behavior

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16
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Sophia

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Wisdom

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Ethical subjectivism

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Moral judgement that marely express feelings and attitudes, not belifs that can be justified or unjustified by appleal to moral reasons

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Intrinsic Good

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Things that are in itself, good

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Moral responsibility

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obligations, blameworthiness, praiseworthiness

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Descriptive Ethics

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How things are

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Ethical Egoism

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Act on our own desires

22
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Theories about motivation

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General perspectives on what motivates engineers and others, by what is good for them

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Moral clarity

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What is the moral dilemma? be specific, rights, responsibilities, duties, good consequences

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Silo mentality

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Keeping information and discussion secret rather then sharing it

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Preventitive Ethics
ethical reflection and action aimed at preventing moral harm and avoidable ethical dilemmas
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Normative Ethics
Ought to be
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Philo
Love
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“I think therefore I am”
Descartes
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Macro ethical issues
concern the general direction of technological development
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Education is remembering of knowledge already gained in the “World of the forms”
Plato
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Right Ethics
Ethics based on human rights
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Arete
Excellence
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Modern Philosophy
Humanitarism
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Ethical Dilemmas
situations which moral reason come into conflict
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Insuramental good
Things sought after for an end
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Prima facie duties
Duties that have premissiable exceptions
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Duty Ethics
universal law of nature & Means to an end formula
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Stakeholder theory
cooperations have reponsibilities to all groups, including employees, dealers, suppliers, local and global communities
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What is engineering ethics
A set of values that consists of responsibilities, rights, ideals and personal commitments that that ought to endorse by those engaged in engineering
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Well-reasoned decision
Which option is the well-reasoned decision? (what you ought to do)
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Informed about options
What are the options you see avaliable for solving the dilemma?
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Moral Framework
Lenses and rules for deciding
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Ethical relativism
view that actions are morally right within a particular society by rules,laws and conventions of that city
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Utilitarianism
Maximizing greatest amount of good, for the greatest amount of people, taking everyone into account
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Cross benefit analysis
Value the worth money over human life
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Absolute duties
duties that never have justifed exceptions