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Which of the following is NOT a necessary skill for engineers to possess when dealing with moral issues?
Which of the following is NOT a necessary skill for engineers to possess when dealing with moral issues?
- Moral integrity
- Moral skepticism (correct)
- Moral coherence
- Moral imagination
What are the two types of moral issues in engineering?
What are the two types of moral issues in engineering?
- Normative ethics and applied ethics
- Micro-ethics and meta-ethics
- Micro-ethics and macro-ethics (correct)
- Macro-ethics and meta-ethics
What do normative inquiries describe?
What do normative inquiries describe?
- The meaning of concepts, principles, and issues related to engineering ethics
- What one ought to do under specific circumstances (correct)
- Investigations into values, meanings, and facts to resolve moral issues
- The responsibility of engineers to protect public safety
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Study Notes
- Engineers should possess moral awareness, cogent moral reasoning, moral coherence, moral imagination, and moral communication skills to deal with issues.
- Ethical reasoning skills include moral reasonableness, respect for persons, tolerance of diversity, moral hope, and integrity.
- Moral issues in engineering require consideration of technical and moral values.
- There are two types of moral issues: micro-ethics and macro-ethics.
- Investigations into values, meanings, and facts are necessary to resolve moral issues.
- Normative inquiries describe what one ought to do under specific circumstances.
- Conceptual inquiries describe the meaning of concepts, principles, and issues related to engineering ethics.
- Engineers have a responsibility to protect public safety and should possess ethics to fulfill their professional obligations.
- Safety and marginal safety issues are described under conceptual inquiries.
- Engineers should be willing to improve their moral reasoning skills to achieve moral conduct with responsibility and commitment.
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