Sogomonov A.Yu. Enlightenment and engineering education in early Russian empire. Semestrial Papers of Applied Ethics. 2023. No. 1 (61). Pp. 162-175.

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Abstract

Engineering and its ethics were the direct cultural import in early Russian empire. They were initiated by the last tsar and the first emperor Peter the Great and for many decades, so as after his death also, developed spontaneously and in a quite different from the European analogues‟ way. The state, headed by Peter himself, desired to diminish the dependence of the empire from the invited foreign professionals, established step by step two schools of engineering, that were not considered by his epigons as successful. The quality of the education was rather low, the programs were substantially chaotic, the textbooks were inadequately render from their European sources. The technical language was constructed from basic European languages sporadically and by means of pure transliteration, that made them semantically empty. The military model of education presupposed the military type of mobility and the profession itself. The engineering ethics, as a result, was based upon principles and values of loyalty, hierarchy and state service, rather than social philosophy of civic service and societal mission.