Golden Rules for Ethics and Morality Senses of Engineering Ethics Ethical Principles Ethical Theories Types of Inquiry Moral Issues

1. Engineering
Ethics
REVATHI MOHAN

2.  Golden Rules for Ethics and Morality
 Senses of Engineering Ethics
 Ethical Principles
 Ethical Theories
 Types of Inquiry
 Moral Issues

5. Senses of Engineering Ethics
 Set of specific moral problems and issues
related to Engineering
 It is based on Justified moral principles
 Activity of understanding Moral Problems
 Set of Belief and Attitude for a group
displays concerning morality
Socially
Responsible
Professionally
Responsible

6. 5 Ethical Principles
Beneficence
Respect for
Autonomy
JusticeFidelity
Non-
Maleficence

7. Ethical Theories

9. Utilitarianism
Act Utilitarianism-john Stuart
Mill
 Action More
Happiness
 Act utilitarianism is the
belief that an action
becomes morally right
when it produces the
greatest good for the
greatest number of
people
Rule Utilitarianism-
Richard Brandt
 Action Rational
Desires and Law
 Rule utilitarianism is
the belief that the
moral correctness
of an action
depends on the
correctness of the
rules that allows it
to achieve the
greatest good

10. Duty Ethics
 3 Core Conditions
 Prima Facie Duties
 Contemporary Duty
of Ethics

11. Duty Ethics(Immanuel Kant)
3 core Condition
 Show respect for
others
 Keeping promises
 Moral Imperatives
Imperative
Hypothetical
Categorical

12. Contemporary Theory- John
Rawl

14. Right Ethics
Liberty Ethics-
John Locke
 A state/Condition
in which people
able to act and
talk freely
Welfare Ethics-
A.I.Meldon
 A state of doing well
for good fortune

15. Virtue Ethics

18. Types of Inquiry
Normative
Conceptual
Factual

19. Normative Inquiry( Values)
 To justify norms for guiding individual as
well as groups

20. Conceptual(Meaning)
 Clarifying the meaning of concepts,
principles and issues

21.  To provide factual inquiries in scientific
technique and business realities
 This information helps to provide better
understanding the background condition
of moral problem

23. Approaches to Engineering Ethics
 Micro-Ethics
 Macro-Ethics

24. Uses of Ethical Theories
To Resolve
Moral
Dilemmas
To justify
moral
obligations
To relate
Professional
and ordinary
morality