40 Questions
What is the main analogy used to describe the role of architects in ensuring safety?
Architects are like chefs in ensuring safe shelter and aesthetics.
What is essential to human survival?
Food and shelter
How does the text suggest architects should collaborate with inspectors and engineers?
Architects should seek their niche with aesthetics, understanding, and shaping human interactions with surroundings.
In what way does the text compare the expectation of architects ensuring safety to chefs?
It is a high ethical requirement and a very low expectation.
According to Taylor, the original choice to elevate nature is primarily:
Aesthetic
Taylor questions the premise of the Zeitgeist argument, which is favored by Modernists, because he believes that:
We can never successfully identify a distinctive technology or culture characterizing a historical period
According to Taylor, in our rapidly changing multicultural world, if Nazi culture were to become pervasive, it should be:
Resisted
Taylor argues that the evocation of Mother Nature was meant to add finality to the discussion for the:
Gothicists
What is the fundamental concept in architecture with roots in ancient Greek and Latin languages?
Aesthetics
According to Kant, what did he see as the original meaning of 'aesthetics'?
The science of sensory perception
What does aesthetics encompass, according to the text?
Perception of material things by all living senses
What instinct develops in humans before an ethical one?
Aesthetic instinct
'Aesthetics describes the first contact with reality and comes before moral knowledge.' Is this statement true or false based on the text?
True
What do ethics and morality deal with, as commonly understood?
Shared values and duties
What shapes the actions and behavior of professionals like doctors?
Their ethos and set of ethical goals
What may hold the key to unlocking the true authority of architects to shape society?
Aesthetics
What is Peter Zumthor known for according to the text?
Being an architect, educator, and ethics expert
What has Peter Zumthor served as according to the text?
Chairman of AIA National Ethics Council
'Architects are subject to which standards and ethics?' According to the text.
'Ethical standards and professional ethics'
'Where does Peter Zumthor currently serve as a city council member?' According to the text.
'Carmel-by-the-Sea, California'
What is the primary justification for forming a regulated profession?
To advance ethical public values through client service
What do professionals prioritize according to the text?
Ethical public values
What is the role of client service in a profession?
A cornerstone for achieving ethical goals
What do licensed professions share in common?
Application of technical knowledge to advance ethical public values through client service
What is the relationship between 'pro' ethics and 'joe' ethics?
They are two separate sets of ethics for different groups of people
What is the characteristic of those with 'schmoe' ethics?
They adhere only to the legal minimums
What is an aesthetic choice according to the text?
Deciding which ethical group to belong to
What is expected of professionals in terms of serving the public?
They must serve the public, not their discipline, colleagues, or clients
What is a cornerstone of a profession according to the text?
Client service
How should professionals approach knowledge according to the text?
Respect knowledge as they would a valuable tool
What are licensed professions ethically obligated to do?
Ensure their own survival and nurture their members, especially aspiring professionals.
What are the four cornerstones of ethics in professions?
Autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice
What was the result of doctors in California adhering to their ethical code?
Indefinite postponement of lethal injection in 2006
What is one argument for the moral purpose of art mentioned in the text?
Art serves as an expressive outlet for human beings, preventing societal instability
According to the Mithradatic approach mentioned in the text, what does art provide?
Life experience by proxy, protecting us from the overwhelming dimensions of life
What is Nigel Taylor's view on the ethical content of buildings according to the text?
'Honesty,' superior style, and following the 'spirit of the age' lack ethical force due to their inconsistencies and exceptions
What is a subject of debate according to the text?
The relationship between aesthetics and ethics
What is one argument supporting the moral purpose of art mentioned in the text?
Art educates and makes people more morally virtuous through empathy
What do some maintain about art's relation to ethics according to the text?
Art is beyond or outside ethical consideration, defining the artistic endeavor as amoral
What have philosophers explored regarding architectural ethics according to the text?
The ethical content of buildings through historical arguments for 'honesty,' superior style, and following the 'spirit of the age'
Study Notes
- The upholding of professional ethics is crucial for the functioning of professions, as seen in the unanimous adherence of doctors in California to their ethical code, which led to the indefinite postponement of lethal injection in 2006.
- The importance of ethics in professions is widely agreed upon, with four cornerstones: autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice.
- The relationship between aesthetics and ethics is a subject of debate, with various philosophical arguments supporting the moral purpose of art and its potential influence on society.
- One argument for the moral purpose of art is that it serves as an expressive outlet for human beings, preventing societal instability.
- Another argument is that art educates and makes people more morally virtuous through empathy.
- The Mithradatic approach to art's moral purpose suggests that it provides life experience by proxy, protecting us from the overwhelming dimensions of life.
- Some maintain that art is beyond or outside ethical consideration, defining the artistic endeavor as amoral.
- Architectural ethics have been explored by philosophers, with Nigel Taylor examining the ethical content of buildings through historical arguments for "honesty," superior style, and following the "spirit of the age."
- Taylor finds that these arguments lack ethical force due to their inconsistencies and exceptions.
- The debate on the ethical implications of aesthetics in professions continues, highlighting the complexities and nuances of the relationship between the two.
Test your understanding of the differences between professional ethics and ordinary ethics. Explore the concepts of 'pro' ethics, 'joe' ethics, and 'schmoe' ethics and how they apply to different social groups.
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