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, it is the virtue of ___________ that mediates between human rationality and professional behavior.

• A) practical wisdom
• B) theoretical wisdom
• C) intuition
• D) aspiration

Understand the role of innate knowledge systems in cognitive development.

Identify and understand key factors influencing population dynamics.

Differentiate between density-dependent and density-independent factors affecting populations.

Recognize and describe the types of competition within populations.

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Definitions:

Semantic Associations

Connections between words, phrases, or symbols and their meanings that are related in memory, often influencing how we interpret language and concepts.

Concepts

Fundamental building blocks of thoughts and beliefs, representing general ideas or understandings that help to categorize and interpret the world.

Unconscious

Pertaining to the part of the mind that is not accessible to the conscious mind but that affects behaviors and emotions.

Intuition

The ability to understand or know something immediately, based on feelings rather than facts or evidence.