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The document discusses civic virtue, which refers to the moral standards and behaviors that promote active citizenship and community welfare. It highlights key concepts from virtue ethics, as presented by philosophers like Aristotle, and explains the importance of habits and personal virtue in civic actions, including voting, volunteering, and community involvement. Additionally, it categorizes different virtues essential for ethical behavior in the engineering profession.
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- 1. P1WU AALIM MUHAMMED SALEGHCOLLEGE OF ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SEMESTER – VIII GE8076 Professional Ethics in Engineering
- 2. UNIT – I: TOPIC 5 : CIVIC VIRTUE AALIM MUHAMMED SALEGH COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SEMESTER – VIII GE8076 Professional Ethics in Engineering
- 3. INTRODUCTION TO CIVICVIRTUE • The Greek word for virtue is arete, which means excellence. • virtue • /ˈvəːtʃuː,ˈvəːtjuː/ noun • 1.behaviour showing high moral standards. Example: "paragons of virtue" • Similar: • Pureness, lack of corruption, merit, principles, high principles, ethics. • (in traditional Christian angelology) the seventh-highest order of the ninefold celestial hierarchy. AALIM MUHAMMED SALEGH COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SEMESTER – VIII GE8076 Professional Ethics in Engineering
- 4. TYPES OF VIRTUE AALIMMUHAMMED SALEGH COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SEMESTER – VIII GE8076 Professional Ethics in Engineering
- 5. INTRODUCTION TO CIVICVIRTUE • Civic virtue is morality or a standard of righteous behavior in relationship to a citizen's involvement in society. • An individual may exhibit civic virtue by voting, volunteering, organizing a book group, or attending a PTA meeting. AALIM MUHAMMED SALEGH COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SEMESTER – VIII GE8076 Professional Ethics in Engineering
- 6. INTRODUCTION TO CIVICVIRTUE • Civic virtue is the harvesting of habits important for the success of the community. • Closely linked to the concept of citizenship, civic virtue is often conceived as the dedication of citizens to the common welfare of their community even at the cost of their individual interests. • Wikipedia AALIM MUHAMMED SALEGH COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SEMESTER – VIII GE8076 Professional Ethics in Engineering
- 7. INTRODUCTION TO CIVICVIRTUE • VIRTUE ETHICS • “The unexamined life is not worth living.” (Socrates, 470-399 B.C.) • “The happy life is thought to be virtuous; now a virtuous life requires exertion and does not consist in amusement.” (Aristotle, 384-322 B.C.) • The Four Main Virtues • Prudence (mind): to think about a moral problem clearly and completely • Temperance (emotions): control attraction to positive emotions • Fortitude (emotions): control aversion for negative emotions • Justice (will): choose according to truth and fairness. AALIM MUHAMMED SALEGH COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SEMESTER – VIII GE8076 Professional Ethics in Engineering
- 8. Historical View onCIVIC VIRTUE • ARISTOTLE says that moral virtues are : • tendencies, acquired through habit formation, • to reach a proper balance between extremes in conduct, emotion, desire and attitude • i.e. virtues are tendencies to find the Golden Mean between the extremes of too much and too little. Some of the virtues are defined using examples here: AALIM MUHAMMED SALEGH COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SEMESTER – VIII GE8076 Professional Ethics in Engineering
- 9. INTRODUCTION TO CIVICVIRTUE AALIM MUHAMMED SALEGH COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SEMESTER – VIII GE8076 Professional Ethics in Engineering
- 10. What are examplesof civic actions? • Examples include voting, volunteering, participating in group activities, and community gardening. • Some are individual activities that benefit society (e.g., voting) or group activities that benefit either the group members (e.g., recreational soccer teams) or society (e.g., volunteer organizations). AALIM MUHAMMED SALEGH COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SEMESTER – VIII GE8076 Professional Ethics in Engineering
- 11. Introduction to VirtueEthics • Focuses on the type of person we should strive to be • Actions which reflect good character traits (virtues) are inherently right • Actions which reflect bad character traits (vices) are inherently wrong • Virtue ethics are tied more to individual behavior than to that of an organization (e.g. business, government) AALIM MUHAMMED SALEGH COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SEMESTER – VIII GE8076 Professional Ethics in Engineering
- 12. Important aspects ofcivic virtue • Important aspects of civic virtue were: • civic conversation (listening to others, trying to reach an agreement, keeping yourself informed so you can have a relevant contribution), • civilized behavior (decent clothing, accent, containing feelings and needs), work (people had to make a useful contribution to the society). AALIM MUHAMMED SALEGH COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SEMESTER – VIII GE8076 Professional Ethics in Engineering
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- 18. virtue groups • varietyof the more specific virtues grouped as follows: • SELF DIRECTION VIRTUES: • Fundamental virtues in exercising our moral autonomy and responsibility. e.g. self understanding, humility, good moral judgment, courage, self discipline, perseverance, commitments, self-respect and dignity • • PUBLIC SPIRITED VIRTUES: • Focusing on the good of the clients and public affected by the engineers‟ work by. not directly and intentionally harming others i.e. „nonmaleficence‟. Benificence, sense of community, generosity are other virtues falling in this category. AALIM MUHAMMED SALEGH COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SEMESTER – VIII GE8076 Professional Ethics in Engineering
- 19. virtue groups • TEAMWORKVIRTUES: • Enables professionals to work successfully with others. E.g. collegiality, cooperativeness, the ability to communicate, respect for authority, loyalty to employers and leadership qualities. • • PROFICIENCY VIRTUES: • Mastery of one‟s craft that characterize good engineering practice e.g. competence, diligence, creativity, self-renewal through continuous education. AALIM MUHAMMED SALEGH COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SEMESTER – VIII GE8076 Professional Ethics in Engineering
- 20. Any Questions? AALIM MUHAMMEDSALEGH COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SEMESTER – VIII GE8076 Professional Ethics in Engineering