NETHMAL PERERA (EIT) BSc Mechanical Engineering
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Ethics

"Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel."
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Ethics

For some students, especially in the sciences and engineering, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

Engineering Ethics
Classical ethics

Study of Ethics

The field of ethics (or moral philosophy) involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior. Philosophers today usually divide ethical theories into three general subject areas: metaethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics. Metaethics investigates where our ethical principles come from, and what they mean. Are they merely social inventions? Do they involve more than expressions of our individual emotions? Metaethical answers to these questions focus on the issues of universal truths, the will of God, the role of reason in ethical judgments, and the meaning of ethical terms themselves. Normative ethics takes on a more practical task, which is to arrive at moral standards that regulate right and wrong conduct. This may involve articulating the good habits that we should acquire, the duties that we should follow, or the consequences of our behavior on others. Finally, applied ethics involves examining specific controversial issues, such as abortion, infanticide, animal rights, environmental concerns, homosexuality, capital punishment, or nuclear war.
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By using the conceptual tools of metaethics and normative ethics, discussions in applied ethics try to resolve these controversial issues. The lines of distinction between metaethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics are often blurry. For example, the issue of abortion is an applied ethical topic since it involves a specific type of controversial behavior. But it also depends on more general normative principles, such as the right of self-rule and the right to life, which are litmus tests for determining the morality of that procedure. The issue also rests on meta-ethical issues such as, "where do rights come from?" and "what kind of beings have rights?"
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    • Ethics >
      • Engineering Ethics >
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        • Fundamental Cannons
        • Professional Obligations
      • Classical Ethics >
        • Consequentialism
        • Deontological Ethics
        • Virtue Theory
    • Senior Design >
      • General Requirements
      • Project Team
      • Goals & Deliverables
      • Modern Wind Turbine Technology
      • Brainstorming >
        • Preliminary Design Concept
        • Modeling Phase
        • Simulation and Testing
        • Evaluation
      • Research
    • QUALITY & MANUFACTURING >
      • Quality >
        • Articles >
          • Deming
    • HVAC >
      • Fundamentals and Terminology >
        • HEAT
        • Thermodynamics
      • Basics of HVAC-R Systems >
        • Forced Air Systems >
          • Duct Leakage Testing
      • Safety
      • Refrigeration >
        • Vapor-Compression System
        • Pressure-Temperation Relation, Superheat and Sub-cooling
        • Refrigerant Cycle
        • Refrigerant Cycle Diagram - Mollier Charts
    • Designs >
      • Solid Modeling
      • Finite Element Analysis
      • Flow Simulation
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