Engineers, Emotions, and Ethics

Advances in Civil and Industrial Engineering - Contemporary Ethical Issues in Engineering ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-8130-9.ch001 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 1-11

Author(s):

Michael Davis

Keyword(s):

Critical Analysis ◽

Ethical Problem ◽

Engineering Ethics ◽

Critical Examination ◽

Fourth Part

This chapter tries to answer the question: What part, if any, should emotion have in making engineering decisions? The chapter is, in effect, a critical examination of the view, common even among engineers, that a good engineer is not only accurate, laconic, orderly, and practical but also free of emotion. The chapter has four parts. The first, the philosophical, provides a critical analysis of the term “emotion.” The second and third parts show how that analysis helps us understand the relation between emotion and engineering. It explicates what a reasonable emotion is. These two sections are organized around an ethical problem concerning management's rejection of engineering judgment. The fourth part, the pedagogical, delineates how we should develop a curriculum for a course in engineering ethics. It suggests teachers of engineering ethics should take time in class to help students accept the fact that engineering has an emotional side, for example, that doing good engineering is likely to delight them and doing bad engineering to depress them.

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Perfumed historic buildings: Issues of authenticity

Spatium ◽

10.2298/spat1636092t ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 92-99

Author(s):

Jovana Tosic

Keyword(s):

Critical Analysis ◽

Social Values ◽

Critical Examination ◽

Historic Buildings ◽

John Ruskin ◽

Creation Process ◽

A Value ◽

The Arts ◽

Philip Johnson ◽

Architectural Preservation

Contemporary historical preservation practice includes olfactory preservation as an experimental method of architectural preservation. The implementation of manufactured scents in historic buildings raises important issues of authenticity. This paper focuses on three important issues in the relation between olfactory preservation and authenticity: the importance of phenomenology in memory evocation; the relative character of the authenticity concept; and the significance of social values in historic preservation. This requires a critical examination of charters, documents and theoretical interpretations which reflect a broader concept of authenticity. The paper discusses certain articles of the Venice Charter, the Nara Document on Authenticity, as well as the sense of smell in architectural experience through critical analysis of the theories of John Ruskin, Viollet-le-Duc, Roger Scruton and Juhani Pallasmaa and their concepts of authenticity. Authenticity issues are illustrated by the examples of olfactory preservation: olfactory reconstruction of Philip Johnson?s Glass House; interior restoration and olfactory reconstruction of the Arts Club in Mayfair, London; and the creation process of the perfume brand Arquiste, a meaningful example which relocates the olfactory reconstruction context. These critical analyses raise the question of scent in historic buildings as a value in itself.

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In the shadows of interpretation: manipulative nature of translation in colliding of sacral and marginal

Journal of Education Culture and Society ◽

10.15503/jecs2021.2.31.50 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 31-50

Author(s):

Liudmyla Garnyk ◽

Yurii Vitkovskyi ◽

Khusameddin AL-Khalavani

Keyword(s):

Cultural Identity ◽

International Relations ◽

Soft Power ◽

Critical Analysis ◽

Public Diplomacy ◽

Religious Studies ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Spiritual Identity ◽

Critical Examination ◽

Social Anthropology

Aim. Aim of the article is to provide critical examination of manipulation process as multidimensional phenomenon related to imagination, representation, translation and interpreting of original texts in light of assurance of informational safety that is our research object. Our research corresponds to theory and practice of translation, psychology, comparative religious studies, international relations, public diplomacy and national security. Methods. Research methodology is based on critical analysis of manipulations with texts; the methods have been borrowed from works of Gilbert Durand (1999), Michel Maffesoli (1996) and James Frazer (2012) on social anthropology. Results. Practical value of obtained results consists in proposed algorithm for critical analysis of translated or interpreted texts that allows to evaluate their quality according to context, meaning and semiotics of the source texts. The notion of empire as an archetype that was implemented into contemporary international relations is also revised and extended. That can help in analysis and prevention of different forms and means of outside and inside tactics of deviant influence on societies and to illuminate threats for cultural identity and spiritual diversity of the global community. Conclusions. Phenomenon of marginalization of cultural and spiritual identity (sacral sphere) under the influence of globalization by the means of soft power pressure can be evaluated today as the unspoken impact of influence agents implemented into new societal institutes in the form of alien cultural imperatives that are enforced to different communities as common for all agendas in the frameworks of postmodern stream.

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Beelzebul Against Satan

Having the Spirit of Christ ◽

10.12987/yale/9780300245622.003.0002 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 24-59

Author(s):

Giovanni B. Bazzana

Keyword(s):

Critical Analysis ◽

The Other ◽

Critical Examination ◽

Textual Tradition ◽

Spirit World

This chapter is focused on the analysis of an extremely puzzling Gospel pericope. A careful redaction-critical examination of the texts recording the “Beelzebul accusation” shows that these Gospel materials preserve a much more complex and challenging representation of the dynamics of possession. In particular, the pericope describes, by employing a theological political idiom, the diversity and conflict that characterize the “spirit” world. In such a context a medium can find a way to cope with the traumatic and empowering experience of the Other that is at the root of possession and, in so doing, to cease being a “hostage” but rather a true “host.” The chapter's redaction-critical analysis reveals that the earliest form of this pericope represented the performative and dialogical nature of “emergent” possession. However, the immediate developments of the oral and textual tradition already began to re-center the episode christologically and to cast it within a polemical frame.

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Research on Embryos and Human Dignity

Israel Law Review ◽

10.1017/s0021223700000613 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 42 (2) ◽

pp. 398-415 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Gunnar Duttge

Keyword(s):

Stem Cells ◽

Embryonic Stem Cells ◽

Human Dignity ◽

Ethical Problem ◽

Embryonic Stem ◽

Legal Framework ◽

Embryo Research ◽

Human Embryos ◽

Critical Examination ◽

Ethical Perspective

The legal framework in effect in Germany since 1991, bars all research on human embryos and permits, since 2002, the import of embryonic stem cells only under the fulfillment of relatively demanding conditions. Legislation linked this position to the goal of ensuring freedom of biomedical research (only) to the extent that it could be justified in view of the state's obligation to protect human dignity and the right to life. Underlying this was the assumption, understood by the draft of the law that embryonic stem cells, given the destruction of embryos, which necessarily precedes their utilization, “cannot be viewed just like any other biological material from an ethical perspective.” In the meantime, however, the legal-political, would-be “enlightened”; Zeitgeist has become oriented toward a hidden or openly displayed “liberalization” of human embryonic stem cell research, which raises the question of what could have fundamentally changed about the previously named “ethical problem.” Great uncertainties obviously exist regarding the central significance of the “human dignity” guaranteed to be “inviolable” as well as about the relevance of this “iron ration” of libertarian-humanist legal thought in the context of destructive embryo research. The present essay gives an overview of the potential interpretive possibilities and subjects them to critical examination against the background of current legal-political developments, which are perceived in Germany not only as a “revolution” not only in the sphere of biological policy, but also ultimately in that of the central determining factors in general in the relationship between state and individual. In this light, how can the kernel of the ideal of human dignity be preserved even against the demands of the (post-) modern (age)?

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