工程伦理学的若干理论问题——兼论为“实践伦理学”正名

Engineering ethics as a new branch of ethics has put us a lot of theoretical and practical questions. For example, for the agent is a team or a company as the collective in engineering action, the collective must have been considered as an ethical subject in engineering ethics, while in traditional ethics the individual as an ethical subject. In engineering action, decision-making plays an important role, so decision-making ethics is a center of engineering ethics. Responsibility is an important question in ethics. We must combine the responsibility with decision-making. In the process of decision-making, the veil of ignorance must be disclosed to let knowledge and stakeholders enter the arena of decision-making. Finally, considering the difference between practical ethics and applied ethics, the author is favor to considering engineering ethics as practical ethics named.