Preston Stovall | Professional Virtue, Professional Self-Awareness, and Engineering Ethics

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Preston Stovall | Professional Virtue, Professional Self-Awareness, and Engineering Ethics
Stovall introduces Aristotle's main arguments and definitions from the Nicomachean Ethics and discusses how professional virtue can best be seen as a subset of Aristotle's ethical virtues. He uses the example of professional engineering virtues to make his case, further emphasizing the role of professional self-awareness in developing a flourishing and successful professional career.
-Stovall states that the exercise of professional virtue requires, above all else,

• A) recognition.
• B) ambition.
• C) self-interest.
• D) self-awareness.

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