EE 295 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Kantian Ethics, Deontological Ethics, Punitive Damages
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Hopefully everyone has made some progress on their term project, due the last day of class. As far as utilitarianism is concerned we need to count up the positives and weigh them against the negatives. Einstein: everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted. Both kantian deontology and utilitarianism provide theories about how to do good. Ethical theories applied to cases consolidate, as we saw last week, into codes of. Ethics and the conflux of theories, cases, and codes is guided by certain fundamental values. Ethics we consider in this class is the ieee code. Consequences both can be seen as intellectual machinery or means which engineering (or actually any activity) can employ toward achieving positive ends or goals or values, all of which indicate some sense of the. This week (week #6) we will look at what ends or goals are appropriate for the engineering enterprise.
