Preliminary Study on the Ethical Issues of Engineering Activities

摘要

Engineering activity is a complex social system project which the decision-making, design, implementation and evaluation may involve the political, cultural, moral, legal and ecological environment and other aspects, containing deep ethical issues. It reflects the relationship between man and people, man and man, man and society. This article based on the analysis of several cases in order to clarify the ethical issues of engineering activities in a more vivid and direct way. Engineering activities brought greater or lesser extent to the natural environment, social development and the public life. At the same time, people who played a leading role in the engineering activities inevitably had their own value judgments and emotional tendencies; therefore, ethical problems in engineering process were an objective reality which can not be ignored.