14 Principles of moral decision-making
The practical goal of ethics is to develop intellectual tools that are useful for making decisions in matters of moral significance. This chapter is an attempt to provide a general characterisation of those tools. Section 14.1 is devoted to the analysis of the most difficult decision-making situations, viz. moral dilemmas; Section 14.2 – to an outline of the most frequently used patterns of ethical reasoning in everyday life; Section 14.3 – to a tentative assessment of the usefulness of formal decision-support tools applied in engineering, production management or warfare management; and Section 14.4 – to unintended and undesirable consequences of morally significant decisions.
14.1 Moral dilemmas
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