Summary
Engineers base their decisions on a variety of values. Rationality, the search for economically optimal solutions (within constraints) should have the upper hand, but practice shows that other group values reduce rationality. This is illustrated by a variety of examples, mostly obtained from experience in industrial projects. Here Max Scheler’s ‘value ethics’ is too idealistic to provide a philosophical framework. Instead, a first step is made in the direction of realistic professional value ethics.
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