Mixed prospects of engineering ethics
Author: Ropohl G.
Source: European Journal of Engineering Education, Volume 27, Number 2, 1 June 2002 , pp. 149-155(7)
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd
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Abstract:
Engineering ethics aims at avoiding harms and increasing benefits of the technical development, particularly with regard to the environmental and social impacts. Engineering ethics assumes that the individual engineer is able to control technical practice autonomously. Actually, the competencies of engineers are very limited. They need institutional and legal support, such as provided by technology assessment within the industrial corporation as well as in public, and reinforced by industrial law. On the other hand, the globalization of capitalism results in reducing the influence of national politics and national law, and thus undermines the effectiveness of engineering ethics and technology assessment. For the future, only international regulations, based on United Nations declarations and establishing a global governance, might provide a sound institutional foundation for the moral point of view in technology.Language: English
Document Type: Research article
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