ENGR 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Virtue Ethics, Consequentialism, Deontological Ethics
11 Apr 2016
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In order to reason in an ethical fashion, we have to become familiar with three dimensions. First, ethical reasoning requires individuals to relect on the nature of the choice one has to make. Second, ater relecion one is ready to analyze the nature of the choice that the person faces. Third, ater analysis the person is ready to make the choice. In order to decide on the ethical nature of the choice we have to make, we need to irst relect on the nature of the choice we face. In relecing on choices, a key point to bear in mind is that ethics provides a means to jusify in a raional manner, the acions we take in a profession or personal context. Each acion is to jusify as ethical, if it is made on the basis of some ethical rule. The ethical rule is to: treat yourself the same way as others (deontological theory) .
