Professional Ethics & Human Values

CONCEPTUAL INQUIRY

These questions should lead to clarifications on concepts, principles and issues in ethics. Examples are: A) What is ‘SAFETY’ and how is it related to ‘RISK’ B)  ‘Protect the safety, health and welfare of public’-What does this statement mean? C) What is a bribe? D) What is a ‘profession’ and who are ‘professionals’?

Jacob

Observations on authority

-    An employer who has institutional authority may direct engineers to do something that is not morally justified. -  Engineers may feel that they have an institutional  duty to obey a directive  that is morally unjustified, but their moral duty, all things considered, is not to obey. -    To  decide  whether  a  specific  act  of  exercising  institutional  authority  is  morally justified,  we need  to know  whether  the institutional  goals are themselves  morally permissible or desirable and whether that act violates basic moral duties.

Jacob

Accounting publicly for benefits and risks

Engineers should account publicly for benefits and risks in the following manner: Engineers must remain as objective as humanly possible…

Jacob
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