ETHICS OF RESPONSIBILITY IN THE PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF ENGINEERS

Abstract

The article is devoted to the formation of ethics of responsibility in the professional training of engineers. The authors in their work focus on revealing the basic ethical challenges to engineering activity in times of globalization and multiculturalism. The researchers insist that responsibility is the basis of engineering ethics. The core of their ethical education should be the relation to a public Another and the communication with him/her. Empathy becomes the necessary component of communications. The ability to talk on behalf of “an ideal communicative community” allows to be responsible for the Future Generation in engineering practice. Virtue Ethics and Normative Ethics are both important for ethical education of engineers in the process of their professional training at a university.