ABSTRACT
The co-mingling of two worldviews in the Concrete Sumo story is both alluring and problematic. It is alluring because the decision-maker follows a "guide" whose professional or collegial values protect the engineer's corporate or employer's values. The worldviews of ethics and literature are different. The main and indispensable tool of ethics is reason; not so of literature. The task of literature is to pierce through the conscious mind where all reason lies, and delve into the unconscious where truths exist among confusion. Ethics must be rational if it is to help us distinguish the better angels of our nature from the worst. And from an ethics worldview, Pritchard and Weil see that the choice to follow Uncle Roy was one that was concerned about good consequences. Literature, however, is not altogether rational. It must be an art form if it is to reveal to people all of the angels of our nature and open the way to our destiny.
