ETHICS


Credit: 1 Hour

COURSE INTRODUCTION & OUTLINE:
Ethics, the discipline concerned with what is morally good and bad and morally right and wrong. The term is also applied to any system or theory of moral values or principles.
How should we live? 
Shall we aim at happiness or at knowledge, virtue, or the creation of beautiful objects? 
If we choose happiness, will it be our own or the happiness of all? 

And what of the more particular questions that face us: is it right to be dishonest in a good cause? 

Can we justify living in opulence while elsewhere in the world people are starving? 

Is going to war justified in cases where it is likely that innocent people will be killed? 

What are our obligations as engineers, if any, to the generations of humans who will come after us and with whom we share the planet

Course Number:  ODPNV377
Field of Study: Laws and Ethics
Level: Basic
Presenter:
Ronald Finger
Prerequisites: 
None