ENGR 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Seat Belt, Virtue Ethics, Consequentialism
5 Jun 2017
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In order for students to reason in an ethical fashion student will be expected to become familur with three dimensions. First ethical reasoning requires individuals to reflect on the nature of the choice one has to make. Second after reflection one is ready to analyze the nature of the choice that the person faces. Third, after analysis the person is ready to make a choice. In order to decide on the ethical nature of the choice we have to make, we need to first reflect the nature of the choice we face. In reflecting on choices, a key point to bear in mind is that ethics provides a means to justify in a rational manner, the actions we take in a professional (or personal) context. Each action is thus justified as ethical, if it is made on the basis of some ethical rule. Example the golden rule treat others the way you want to be treated.
