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The document discusses the importance of intentions in ethics and virtue ethics. It provides examples of how intentions determine whether an action is ethical. It also discusses defining intentions as the goals or consequences of an action that a person approves of. Intentions are identified by examining attitudes toward the consequences of an action, whether approval, disapproval, mixed, or indifferent.

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7role of Intention

The document discusses the importance of intentions in ethics and virtue ethics. It provides examples of how intentions determine whether an action is ethical. It also discusses defining intentions as the goals or consequences of an action that a person approves of. Intentions are identified by examining attitudes toward the consequences of an action, whether approval, disapproval, mixed, or indifferent.

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HM-221 SOCIAL AND ETHICAL

ASPECTS IN ENGINEERING

Resource Person: H M Osaid


UMT, Lahore

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THE ROLE OF INTENTION


Significance of intention
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 Virtue ethics concerns itself not only with habits but


also with internal intentions.
 Intentions are especially important in cases wherein
the virtues must be consciously brought to bear.
 In such situations, a person’s intention plays a key role
in determining whether a particular action is ethical.
 Indeed, ethicists over the centuries have attached great
importance to intention in assessing the goodness of an
action.
Examples
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A few simple examples will illustrate why intention is so


much important.
I. People typically become much angrier with someone who
deliberately enters incorrect data into a spreadsheet than
with someone who does so accidentally.
II. Most legal systems account for intention by differentiating
between voluntary and involuntary actions; like
manslaughter, and between tax evasion and accidental
underpayment of taxes.
What is intention
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 It is noteworthy that “intention” can be understood in


multiple ways.
 Many ethicists define intention as the purpose of an action.
That is, intention is the answer to the question, “What is
this action attempting to accomplish?”
 However, sometimes people do things with several goals in
mind. In other words, an action can have several
intentions.
What is intention
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 In such cases, it is useful to employ a different definition


of intention. The goals of an action can almost always be
described as specific consequences.
 For example, if someone has the goal of developing a
larger vocabulary, the action might be the study of word
lists, and a consequence might be learning the definitions
of two hundred new words.
What is intention
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 Phrasing goals as specific consequences enables the


systematic identification of intentions as answers to the
question, “To which consequences do we give approval?”
(Some ethicists use the word “consent” instead of
“approval.”) That is, we can identify intentions by
examining attitudes toward the consequences of an action.
 That is, we can identify intentions by examining attitudes
toward the consequences of an action.
What is intention
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 We can categorize such attitudes in one of four ways:


approval, disapproval, mixed, and indifferent. These attitudes
differ from mere feelings, be they positive, negative, conflicted
or neutral.
 For example, it is possible to feel bad when reporting a
coworker for stealing, but it is also possible to simultaneously
approve of the consequence of justice; that follows. Since the
ability to choose resides in the will, approval and disapproval
are chosen intentions of the will rather than reflexive
responses of the emotions.
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