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.
-For Aristotle, ethical virtues, as opposed to intellectual virtues,

• A) are pursued as ends in themselves.
• B) are pursued as means to some further end.
• C) should not be considered as means to an end.
• D) exemplified by theoretical wisdom and science.