Ehtics Journal 2

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Feb 20, 2024

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Ethics Journal 2 Samantha Allred ENMA 480 Moral reasoning is the process of analyzing beliefs, specifically those related to ethics. Confidence in the existence or integrity of something that is not immediately acceptable to evident proof is defined as a belief. Moral principles are distinguished from factual issues, with a focus on the latter's debatability. The process of considering the facts, opinions, and information at hand and using moral principles to guide decisions is known as moral reasoning; investigating both explicit and tacit reasoning while recognizing how difficult it can be to clarify or generalize situations and decisions in moral situations. The lecture explores theories, facts, and moral truths while contrasting utilitarianism and Kantian ideas. There are inquiries into the nature of truth, what constitutes a truth, and the responsible determination of moral truth; a strategy for handling difficult moral and ethical problems is effective moral reasoning, which involves methods, convictions, more information, and asking the right questions. There is discussion of several methods of approaching moral reasoning, including universalizability, natural law, and intentions and content. The following lists some of the elements that go into moral reasoning: conceptual clarity, moral clarity, knowledge of the options and facts, and well-reasoned decision-making. Claims that are both prescriptive and descriptive are distinguished, highlighting the fact that obligations do not always follow directly from descriptive claims. Fairness is believed to require consistency in moral reasoning, as demonstrated by programs such as affirmative action. G.E. Moore argues that the naturalistic fallacy cautions against conflating goodness with ideas such as desirability. Several fallacies are listed, warning against their traps in moral reasoning, such as ad hominem, false dilemma, and straw man. This article examines the function of codes of ethics (COE) in engineering, highlighting the public interest, direction, common standards, support, understanding, and deterrence that COEs provide. The Engineers' NSPE COE for Engineers is provided, including fundamentals and obligations. The position of ethical relativism is presented, which raises the question of whether engineers' responsibilities are based on the code of ethics or if the codes are only recommendations. Effective codes should have consistency, clarity, and broad acceptance in the industry.

Ethics Journal 2 Samantha Allred ENMA 480

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