EE 295 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Lifeworld, Precautionary Principle, Breakcore
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In chapter 8 entitled material ethics we have begun to look at the third and final kind of ethics to be considered in the class. We have considered virtue ethics in terms of the values (virtues) of fairness, honesty, caring. And we have considered process ethics in terms of the values of health & safety, social justice, environmental sustainability. Now we will consider material ethics in terms of the values of engagement, enlivenment, and resonance. Most products emerging from the engineering process are. They belong to a realm of disposable reality. However, some of the products emerging from the engineering process can be focal things or thingly things known primarily for how they gather a world about them and for their commanding reality. So the products of the engineering process tend to be devices but they can be focal things or they can be things that serve focal practices.
