CONSENSUS AND CONTROVERSY

 

                    

CONTROVERSY:

 

    All  individuals  will  not  arrive  at same  verdict  during  their  exercising  their  moral autonomy.

•    Aristotle noted long ago that morality is not as precise and clear-cut as arithmetic.

  Aim  of  teaching  engg  ethics  is  not  to  get  unanimous  conformity  of  outlook  by indoctrination, authoritarian and dogmatic teaching, hypnotism or any other technique but to improve promotion of tolerance in the exercise of moral autonomy.

 

 

CONSENSUS;

 

The conductor of a music orchestra has authority over the musicians  and his authority is respected by them by consensus as otherwise the music performance will suffer. Hence the authority and autonomy are compatible.

 

 

On the other hand, tension arises between the needs for autonomy and the need for concerns about authority. The difference between the two should be discussed openly to resolve the issue to the common good.