DEONTOLOGIA, Grupo A – Periodo 55

INFORME CHAPTER 3

MARCOS CUJI
PABLO LOPEZ
LUIZ PIÑA
CHRISTIAN SARAGURO

Universidad Politécnica Salesiana

Carrera de Ingeniería Electrónica
CUENCA, 13 DE ENERO DEL 2020
 TO ANALYSE THE STRUCTURE OF DEONTOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES

The five ethical principles

1. - Autonomy is the principle that addresses the concept of independence. The essence
of this principle is allowing an individual the freedom of choice and action. It addresses
the responsibility of the counselor to encourage clients, when appropriate, to make their
own decisions and to act on their own values. There are two important considerations in
encouraging clients to be autonomous. First, helping the client to understand how their
decisions and their values may or may not be received within the context of the society
in which they live, and how they may impinge on the rights of others.
Example
In the autonomy you can give an example of a robot since each one has a different
autonomy and these robots are designed or programmed for different functions

Fig.1 Robot autonomy

2. - Justice does not mean treating all individuals the same. Kitchener points out that the
formal meaning of justice is "treating equals equally and unequals unequally but in
proportion to their relevant differences". If an individual is to be treated differently, the
counselor needs to be able to offer a rationale that explains the necessity and
appropriateness of treating this individual differently.
Example
An example of justice may be that when we do our job have an ethic as a worker and if
something happens at work have the best way to solve the problem with all the pleasure
of the law

Fig. 2 Justice in the engineering

3. - Nonmaleficence is the concept of not causing harm to others. Often explained as

"above all do no harm", this principle is considered by some to be the most critical of all
the principles, even though theoretically they are all of equal weight. This principle
reflects both the idea of not inflicting intentional harm, and not engaging in actions that
risk harming others.
Example
In the nonmaleficence we have that when we are working we do not do any evil with the
other colleagues this can be to hide the work things and steal their work material.
4. - Beneficence reflects the counselor's responsibility to contribute to the welfare of the
client. Simply stated it means to do good, to be proactive and also to prevent harm when
possible.
Example
When it comes to benefits, engineers must have a very good ethic because they have to
give all their benefits of law and not make them work hard and pay less this hurts workers.

5. - Fidelity involves the notions of loyalty, faithfulness, and honoring commitments.

Clients must be able to trust the counselor and have faith in the therapeutic relationship
if growth is to occur. Therefore, the counselor must take care not to threaten the
therapeutic relationship nor to leave obligations unfulfilled.
Example
Fidelity in the field of engineering could be when we have a supplier that helps us with
all the materials and we change them for some reason this may be some discussion.

Engineering Ethics
In life and engineering, you’re not always going to succeed. What’s important is that you
learn from your screw-ups and incorporate those lessons into what you do next.
Because when you don’t, the consequences can be bad. Even deadly. To help keep us on
track, we need something that will provide a sense of morality and a set of best practices
for doing good in the world. We need ethics. Specifically, we need engineering ethics.
Engineering is a broad, ever-changing field. With so many different branches, it’s good
to have some common ground – a general set of guidelines or ideas for how the engineers
of the world should go about solving problems. One of these is safety, which we’ll talk
about more next time. The other is ethics. In general, ethics is a moral philosophy that
tries to deal with what’s right, what’s wrong, and what your duty is to do good – and not
do bad. Engineering ethics is essentially this same mindset, just applied to the field of
engineering. It’s the study of values, issues, and decisions that are involved with the work
of engineers. Ethics has a particular importance for engineers because people’s lives are
so often going to be in your hands. It’s not just about remembering your manners or being
nice to your neighbor. What you create as an engineer could save a person’s life or take
it away. When you swallow a pill at the hospital, you need to be able to trust that the
people that came up with it had your best interests in mind. When you drive over a bridge,
you need to know that the civil engineers who designed it took the time to make it as
sturdy as possible. The foods you eat – the cars you drive – the wires in your home they
all need to be designed with ethics in mind. If you want to see how bad an engineering
failure can be, look no further than the Kansas City Hyatt-Regency Collapse.

Summary of Chapter 3
Ethical Decision-making Models.

Ethical decision-making models provide a suggested mechanism for critical thinking and
planning for the resolution of ethical dilemmas. An ethical decision-making model is a
tool that can be used by health care providers to help develop the ability to think through
an ethical dilemma and arrive at an ethical decision. A number of models are presented
in the ethics literature, most of which are similar in design and content. The goal of each
model is to provide a framework for making the best decision in a particular situation
with which the health care provider is confronted. Most of these models use principle-
based reasoning, an approach derived from the work of philosophers Beauchamp and
Childress.7 These models consider ethical principles, obligations and values. They
advocate the use of resources such as published evidence, clinical data and consulting
colleagues in dentistry. Some of these models incorporate four, five or seven steps for
resolving dilemmas but all support careful reasoning through the structure of a decision
model whether in solo private practice, large clinical settings, or dentally-related
advocacy organizations.

Fig. 3 Ethical Decision-making Models.

Professionals are the experts who know what to do and how to do it. Clients and users are
the main affected with the services and products they get, as they are who need, wish, ask
for and receive the professional services.
A professional must act looking for the benefit of his clients or users. A good professional
will be ethical and he also will care about others trying to respect his clients’ dignity and
rights.