01 What is Engineering Ethics? … 19
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Dictionary definition of ethics… 19
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The Purpose and Necessity of Engineering Ethics… 21
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What is professional ethics? … 32
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Engineers' Responsibilities and Types of Responsibilities … 35
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Ethical Judgments and Strategies in Engineering Ethics… 41
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What is the social responsibility of engineers? … 43
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Practical Directions for Engineering Ethics… 48
02 Systems of Normative Ethics - Utilitarianism and Deontology… 55
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Utilitarianism … 57
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Deontology … 69
03 Principles for Moral Solutions to Engineering Problems … 81
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Analyzing the problem… 82
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General moral sense and moral justification… 88
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Line-Drawing Technique … 94
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What are other alternatives to resolving conflicting values? … 100
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Utilitarian Approach… 101
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An approach based on human dignity… 111
04 Engineering Research Ethics for Engineers… 123
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Engineers' Experimental and Research Ethics… 123
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Principles of Engineer Research… 125
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Research Misconduct … 129
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The Necessity and Principles of the Code of Engineering Ethics… 135
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Representative Engineering Ethics Codes and Their Characteristics… 138
05 Engineering Thinking and Engineers' Responsibilities… 149
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Types of Engineering Thinking and Engineers' Responsibilities… 150
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Engineering Accidents That Occur Among Engineers and Their Prevention… 156
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A Concrete Approach to Engineering Thinking… 160
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Engineers' Responsibility for Risks… 168
06 The Relationship Between Employers and Engineers… 189
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The Differences in Perspectives Between Employers and Engineers and Their Causes… 190
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The Difference Between PED and PMD Using the Line-Drawing Technique… 191
3.
Uncritical Loyalty and Critical Loyalty… 197
4.
Responsible Organized Disobedience by Engineers… 199
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The Social Responsibilities of Engineers… 201
07 Public Service Ethics … 209
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Concepts of Public Service and Public Official Ethics… 210
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Corruption in the public sector… 226
08 Engineers and Environmental Ethics… 243
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The severity of the global environment… 243
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Environmental Ethics, Engineers, and the Value Neutrality of Environmental Policy… 246
3.
Engineers and the Direction of Sustainable Environmental Policy… 260
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Climate Change and Environmental Policy… 275
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Sustainable Environmental Ethics and Environmental Policy… 281
09 Cyber ​​Ethics … 291
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The Meaning and Necessity of Cyberethics… 291
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Characteristics of Cybercommunications… 293
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The Problem of Anonymity in Cybercommunications… 294
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Methodology of Cyber ​​Ethics… 296
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Panopticon and Cyberspace… 307
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Netiquette… 310
10 Robot Ethics… 321
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The Purpose and Necessity of Robot Ethics… 321
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Deontology: Good Will and the Categorical Imperative… 323
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Utilitarianism: Utility, Maximum Happiness, and Qualitative Happiness… 326
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Virtue Ethics … 329
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Ethics of Responsibility… 331
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Emotionalism… 334

Author's Preface
This revised edition of Engineering Ethics is the second edition published following the publication of 『Engineering Ethics in the Age of Science and Technology』 by Philosophy and Reality in 2006 and the first revised edition by Chungnam National University Press in 2009.
We have revised and supplemented the parts that were insufficient last time, and we have boldly omitted chapters that were considered to have little direct connection to the content of standard engineering ethics or were old topics.
That is, in the existing engineering ethics, “What is ecological ethics?: The problem of global warming,” “Bioethics: The issue of euthanasia,” and “Cyberethics: The reality of hacking” were omitted or upgraded.
Therefore, in this revised edition of Engineering Ethics, new chapters on “Cyber ​​Ethics,” “Engineers and Environmental Ethics,” and “Robot Ethics” have been introduced.
We also sought to increase expertise by recruiting additional writers for robot ethics.
I don't know to what extent our writing of engineering ethics has satisfied the intellectual needs of engineering students.
We also hope for many criticisms from our readers, and promise to continuously improve any areas where we are lacking.
Finally, I would like to express my gratitude to Director Kim Jeong-tae of Chungnam National University Press and Culture Center, who kindly permitted and sponsored the revised edition of this book, as well as to Director Yang Gwang-jun, and to Kim Bo-ra, who helped with editing, proofreading, and the book cover, and designed it beautifully.