Engineering and Moral Heresies by C. S. Lewis

Our teacher, Paulo Fernando Ribeiro, talked to us about the Engineering and Moral Heresies on June 16th. In his lecture, he has pointed some heresies that we brought from our society to our career and how engineering is in mostly moved by these heresies.

Some of them is important to be highlighted:

• Subjectivism: the subjectivity of goodness and badness;

• Emotivism: the reduction of goodness and badness to emotions;

• Positivism: the idea that man posits values with his will, invents goodness and badness;

• Cultural relativism: the relativity of goodness and badness into place, or culture;

• Utilitarianism: the reduction of goodness to utility, or efficiency;

• Instinctualism: the reduction of goodness to biological instinct;

• Hedonism: the reduction of goodness to pleasure;

• Egotism: the reduction of goodness to enlightened selfishness;

• Pragmatism: the weakness of goodness and the power of badness.

This lecture showed us how an engineer has to behave in his labor and in society. An engineer needs to have a huge responsibility in exercising their profession and as a human being.

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