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Are you a deontologist or a utilitarian?
- Would you walk away from Omelas?
- Ursula LeGuin wrote a fascinating short story entitled, “The Ones Who Walked Away from Omelas.” It describes a city in which almost everything is perfect. Almost all the inhabitants are happy and prosperous. Everything seems perfect until the visitor to the city discovers that all the happiness and prosperity of the city are purchased by inflicting unimaginable suffering on one innocent young girl. She is kept alone in a dark room, denied kindness and human interaction, and forced to live in appalling material conditions. At the end of her story, LeGuin poses for us a choice: Would you choose to live in a city where the happiness of the many (including you) is purchased by channeling all unhappiness onto one unfortunate innocent victim?
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Would a Deontologist walk away from Omelas? Why or why not?
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Would a Utilitarian walk away from Omelas? Why or why not?
Virtue ethics
- Virtue ethics differs from deontology and consequentialism.
- First, rather than focusing on the action it focuses on the agent. The action eminates from the character of the agent; hence, evaluate the action in terms of what it says about the agent.
- Second, it raises the bar in moral analysis. Instead of focusing on harm minimalization or on the moral minimum, virtue ethics is really about moral excellence. Virtue translates the Greek word, "arete" which can also be translated by excellence. Thus, virtues are excellences and moral virtues are moral excellences.
- Finally, virtues point, not just to the individual, but to the community. They represent habits of action performed by individuals that bring about the goods that sustain the social surroundings. Professional virtues are patterns of action performed by professionals that keep the profession healthy and vibrant.
Aristotle's definitions of virtue or arete
- "a state of character concerned with choice, lying in a mean, i.e., the mean relative to us, this being determikned by a rational principle and by that principle by which [a person] of practical wisdom would determine it." (Ross's translation in Nicomachean Ethics, 1106b, 36.
- Virtues are excellences of character. Aristotle finds them in the mean lying betweentwo extremes which are termed "vices." Invices of excess, we have too much of a good thing. So recklessness is too much courage. In vices of defect, we have too little of a good thing. So cowardice is the vice of too little courage.
- Cardinal Virtues: temperance, courage, wisdom, and justice. The last represents the ordering of temperance and courage under wisdom and insight into the nature of good.
Macintyre's definition of virtue (macintyre 2007)
- "A virtue is an acquired human quality the possession and exercise of which tends to enable us to achieve those goods which are internal to practices and the lack of which effectively prevents us from achieving any such goods.
- Goods internal to engineering would include such things as (1) the health, safety, and welfare of the public which is served by the virtue of holding this good paramount in engineering design, (2) remaining loyal to the legitimate interests of the client which is displayed by the virtue of avoiding conflicts of interest, keeping client concerns confidential and exercising due care in engineering design, (3) upholding the honor and integrity of the profession which is upheld in displaying excellences in expert witnessing, superising the preparation of engineering plans, and upholding and advancing standards of excellent engineering practice, and (4) collegiality which is advanced through the excellence of treating peers respectfully, giving them credit, and working with them to advance engineering knowledge and practice.
Questions & Answers
A golfer on a fairway is 70 m away from the green, which sits below the level of the fairway by 20 m. If the golfer hits the ball at an angle of 40° with an initial speed of 20 m/s, how close to the green does she come?
A mouse of mass 200 g falls 100 m down a vertical mine shaft and lands at the bottom with a speed of 8.0 m/s. During its fall, how much work is done on the mouse by air resistance
Can you compute that for me. Ty
Jude
what is the dimension formula of energy?
Chemistry is a branch of science that deals with the study of matter,it composition,it structure and the changes it undergoes
Adjei
please, I'm a physics student and I need help in physics
Adjanou
chemistry could also be understood like the sexual attraction/repulsion of the male and female elements. the reaction varies depending on the energy differences of each given gender. + masculine -female.
Pedro
A ball is thrown straight up.it passes a 2.0m high window 7.50 m off the ground on it path up and takes 1.30 s to go past the window.what was the ball initial velocity
2. A sled plus passenger with total mass 50 kg is pulled 20 m across the snow (0.20) at constant velocity by a force directed 25° above the horizontal. Calculate (a) the work of the applied force, (b) the work of friction, and (c) the total work.
you have been hired as an espert witness in a court case involving an automobile accident. the accident involved car A of mass 1500kg which crashed into stationary car B of mass 1100kg. the driver of car A applied his brakes 15 m before he skidded and crashed into car B. after the collision, car A s
can someone explain to me, an ignorant high school student, why the trend of the graph doesn't follow the fact that the higher frequency a sound wave is, the more power it is, hence, making me think the phons output would follow this general trend?
Nevermind i just realied that the graph is the phons output for a person with normal hearing and not just the phons output of the sound waves power, I should read the entire thing next time
Joseph
Follow up question, does anyone know where I can find a graph that accuretly depicts the actual relative "power" output of sound over its frequency instead of just humans hearing
Joseph
"Generation of electrical energy from sound energy | IEEE Conference Publication | IEEE Xplore" ***ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7150687?reload=true
Ryan
what are the types of wave
Maurice
fine, how about you?
Mohammed
A string is 3.00 m long with a mass of 5.00 g. The string is held taut with a tension of 500.00 N applied to the string. A pulse is sent down the string. How long does it take the pulse to travel the 3.00 m of the string?
Who can show me the full solution in this problem?
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OpenStax, Engineering ethics modules for ethics across the curriculum. OpenStax CNX. Oct 08, 2012 Download for free at http://legacy.cnx.org/content/col10552/1.3
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