ENGR 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Organizational Chart, Sexual Misconduct, Social Skills
24 Oct 2017
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Analyzing choices: professionals must make multiple choices, each comes with different courses of action. Making the choice: after analysis, one must make a decision (ex. Intro: any human behavior has three aspects, agent: focuses on the person who will act (virtue theory, action: focuses on the nature of the action (deontological, result: focuses on the nature of the action (consequentialism) Result (consequentialism: the ethical content of an action depends on the consequences produced, the hypothetical obligation: If you want result b, then do a. : problems: Good/bad consequences may not be immediately knowable. Difficulty in characterizing the good and bad: ex. Mill"s utilitarianism: utilitarianism: right actions are those that produce the maximum benefit for the greatest number. Maximum benefit understood as: number of people affected, intensity of benefit (nature of benefit trivial vs. serious, duration of benefit (time period to see benefit)
