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What are the two types of moral issues in engineering?
What are the two types of moral issues in engineering?
- Micro-ethics and macro-ethics (correct)
- Legal and ethical issues
- Technical and social issues
- Practical and theoretical issues
What are the five moral skills that engineers should possess to deal with issues?
What are the five moral skills that engineers should possess to deal with issues?
- Technical reasoning, moral reasoning, moral coherence, moral imagination, and communication skills
- Moral awareness, technical reasoning, moral coherence, moral imagination, and communication skills
- Moral awareness, cogent moral reasoning, moral coherence, moral imagination, and moral communication skills (correct)
- Moral awareness, technical reasoning, moral coherence, moral imagination, and moral communication skills
What do normative inquiries describe?
What do normative inquiries describe?
- What one ought to do under specific circumstances (correct)
- Investigations into values, meanings, and facts to resolve moral issues
- The meaning of concepts, principles, and issues related to engineering ethics
- The responsibility of engineers to protect public safety
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- 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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