12 Engineering Ethics: An Industrial Perspective
Rights Ethics Decision
In our fictional situation, Mr. Concerned has the right to tell the CEO
that Mr. Early Retirement is wrong about the product, much as Mr. Early
Retirement had the right to announce product completion by e-mail. The
concept of a product recall is immaterial to this discussion. Using rights
ethics, Mr. Concerned is obligated to tell the CEO that the product is not
ready to transfer to manufacturing.
VIRTUE ETHICS
According to virtue ethics, morality is not related to action, but to virtue.
Virtue, as defined by Aristotle, is a habit of the soul, involving both feeling
and action, to seek the mean in all things relative to us. Here, the soul refers
to a person’s fundamental character ...