1.) (a) In general, what is line-drawing and how can we use it to resolve unclear cases by comparing them with clear-cut cases (paradigms)? (b) Give an apt example.
2.) (Be certain to answer every part of this question and to itemize the parts of your answer (a) – (e) in accordance with the questions asked.)
According to the authors, how do engineers define risk? (b) How can this understanding be explicated in terms of cost-benefit analysis? (c) In contrast, how do the authors describe the layperson’s use of the word “risk” as a result of recurrent confusions and conflations? (d) How does this lay conception of risk tend to express a respect for persons, rather than utilitarian, approach to moral decision-making?
3.)(a) Describe the Milgram experiments. (b) Describe what, if anything, you take these experiments to tell us about the ways in which engineers might become “distanced” from the consequences of their decisions in large organizational contexts? (c) Describe two positive recommendations that Milgram offers on the basis of his research to encourage personal responsibility on the part of employees. (d) Describe the way in which the second of these recommendations might be undermined by the phenomenon of groupthink.
4.) (b) What is Leopold’s “non-anthropocentric” ethcis and (b) the authors’ modified non-anthropocentric ethics (on p. 178)? (c) Which do you find more palatable? Why?
5.)
(Be certain to answer every part of this question and to itemize the parts of your answer (a) – (c) in accordance with the questions asked.)
Referring to the Jonas reading address the following questions: How has (a) the recent vulnerability of nature, (b) the new role of knowledge in morality, and (c) the growing sense of nature as a “human trust” changed or expanded the features that need to be accounted for by an adequate modern ethics?
https://www.basicincome.com/bp/files/The_Abolition_of_Man-C_S_Lewis.pdf
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