The Global Validity of Ethics: Applying Ethics to Engineering and Technology Development
| Authors: | Bitay Balazs, University of Technology Budapest, Hungary
Brandt Dietrich, University of Technology Aachen, Germany
Savelsberg Eva, University of Technology Aachen, Germany |
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| Topic: | 9.5 SWIIS |
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| Session: | Practical Applications of Ethics: Barriers and Solutions |
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| Keywords: | Business, engineering, ethics, Hippocratic Oath, transportation |
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Abstract
Recently several attempts have been made to define and implement new codes of ethics in dealing with technology today and tomorrow. Thus the global validity of Ethics under the impact of new Technologies has become visible as an issue widely discussed within engineering, philosophy and society. It requires increasingly the awareness of our own responsibility towards all humans as well as towards the natural environment and towards future generations. The issue has been taken up by the several groups of engineers, entrepreneurs and politics. Some examples of such strategic approaches towards ethics of technology will be described and discussed in this presentation. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the IFAC Multitrack Conference On Advanced Control Strategies For Social And Economic Systems, Sept. 2-4, 2004, Vienna University of Technology.
