The Engineer as an Educator: Goods, Virtues, and Secondary Practices
How should ethical standards be maintained within engineering and engineering education? The present paper addresses this question with relation to the dominant models of engineering ethics (EE) to show that their limits might be overcome by incorporating the vocabulary of neo-Aristotelian virtue et...
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| description | How should ethical standards be maintained within engineering and engineering education? The present paper addresses this question with relation to the dominant models of engineering ethics (EE) to show that their limits might be overcome by incorporating the vocabulary of neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics. On the basis of the MacIntyrean concept of practice, the secondary role of engineering is highlighted which echoes similar debates concerning education. This similarity is picked up to argue that the role of the engineer in relation to the end-users of their projects should be understood as on a par with the teacher-student relationship. This enables us not only to redefine the internal good of engineering and the ground for EE, but also to indicate the key virtues and educational models for engineering that they should be key parts of. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-acf7b7e4a87245c194784c64c61339332025-01-20T11:10:12ZengSciendoStudies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric2199-60592024-12-0169160362010.2478/slgr-2024-0032The Engineer as an Educator: Goods, Virtues, and Secondary PracticesMachura Piotr0University of Silesia, Katowice, PolandHow should ethical standards be maintained within engineering and engineering education? The present paper addresses this question with relation to the dominant models of engineering ethics (EE) to show that their limits might be overcome by incorporating the vocabulary of neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics. On the basis of the MacIntyrean concept of practice, the secondary role of engineering is highlighted which echoes similar debates concerning education. This similarity is picked up to argue that the role of the engineer in relation to the end-users of their projects should be understood as on a par with the teacher-student relationship. This enables us not only to redefine the internal good of engineering and the ground for EE, but also to indicate the key virtues and educational models for engineering that they should be key parts of.https://doi.org/10.2478/slgr-2024-0032engineering ethicsethics of technologymoral educationvirtue ethicsalasdair macintyre |
| spellingShingle | Machura Piotr The Engineer as an Educator: Goods, Virtues, and Secondary Practices Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric engineering ethics ethics of technology moral education virtue ethics alasdair macintyre |
| title | The Engineer as an Educator: Goods, Virtues, and Secondary Practices |
| title_full | The Engineer as an Educator: Goods, Virtues, and Secondary Practices |
| title_fullStr | The Engineer as an Educator: Goods, Virtues, and Secondary Practices |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Engineer as an Educator: Goods, Virtues, and Secondary Practices |
| title_short | The Engineer as an Educator: Goods, Virtues, and Secondary Practices |
| title_sort | engineer as an educator goods virtues and secondary practices |
| topic | engineering ethics ethics of technology moral education virtue ethics alasdair macintyre |
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