> just being a good person
You say it like this is something well-defined and easily achievable, but I am not sure it is.
You say it like this is something well-defined and easily achievable, but I am not sure it is.
Morals and ethics. Things which were heavily taught in earlier times, and which now have been replaced by STEM.
Someone is going to squwak that morals and ethics have been debated for millenium, thus certainly NOT well defined.
response: nice STEM thinking, which assumes a mathematical definition of "defined".
VS a morals and ethics definition, which says "here are the points of variance which go into moral decision making." Where a "definition" is not an answer, it is a framing of the debate.
Because moral decisions are always tradeoffs along different dimensions. And moral reasoning is about making judgement calls under uncertainty.
I cannot let this go because my Engineering undergrad is the one place I encountered a decent course on ethics; studying the subject is necessary for licensure. We didn't displace ethics, Philosophy departments got lost in their own rhetorical devices and don't talk about the 'how then should we live?' question enough to interest the general public.