Engineering Good: How Engineering Metaphors Help us to Understand the Moral Life and Change Society.

Engineering can learn from ethics, but ethics can also learn from engineering. In this paper, I discuss what engineering metaphors can teach us about practical philosophy. Using metaphors such as calculation, performance, and open source, I articulate two opposing views of morality and politics: one...

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Published in:	Science & Engineering Ethics Vol. 16; no. 2; pp. 371 - 386
Main Author:	Coeckelbergh, Mark
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Jun2010
Subjects:	Engineering Ethics Metaphor Political science Conduct of life
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost