This is Episode 5: Philosophical Ethics in Iron Man 3
Technoethics and Responsibilities, a title of an article by C.R. Perkins from 2016 is where I want to guide our discussion today, sorry Thor.
The discovery, application, and advancement of technology requires philosophers and ethicists to apply the study of discerning the moral principles involved with past, present, and future technological feats.
There are existing ethical theories that we can draw upon to address many ethical problems in the past, present, and future. Three major ethical theories:
1. Pure utilitarianism is the belief that any action is right and defensible if it brings about the largest amount of good for the largest amount of people. Such an ethical system is chiefly concerned with results and consequences rather than set rules and principles. This is essentially the epitome of “the ends justify the means.”
2. Kant’s deontological ethical system argues that morality and upholding certain values and principles are a matter of duty; that is, it is one’s responsibility to do what is objectively and(/or) intrinsically good. It focuses on the rightness of actions instead of the consequences, focusing on what an individual should do; therefore, one could argue that this is an opposing inverse to utilitarianism in claiming that it is the means that justify the ends.
Premise of Discussion
So, in Iron Man 3, Tony has to perhaps more than ever face the limitations and dangers of his own personality and creations – both literal (the suits) and accidental (extremis and Killian). What level or responsibility does Tony Stark possess and how does he handle it in the film?
Source: https://patrumtheologia.wordpress.com/2016/12/19/superheroes-and-philosophy-iron-man-technoethics-and-responsibility/
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