Name: Salcedo, Neliza O.
Section: BEED 1C
“Reflection Paper on Ethics Subject”
The end of an experience is a great time to reflect on my learning for the rest
of the semester in taking up this subject (ethics). First of all, we tackle about the
meaning of ethics on our first day of our classes. Precisely, what does ethics mean
to me? Ethics in my point of view would be a logical understanding that gave me
learnings that it’s about the right and wrong that sets out what people should do
and should not do whether it be in freewill, virtues, obligations, or rights. I feel that
it is necessary to continuously examine our standards to ensure that they are
reasonable. Ethics should have a continuous effort within our own moral beliefs, to
make us the better person all around.
Pursuing this further, this learning gave me a good outlook as a person and it
lecture shaped my perception and thoughts on this subject. During my experience
on this subject, I’ve found that I’m drawn towards and most enjoy the way that I
realize about oneself that we have the concerns of the rightness or wrongness of
action, the virtue or vice of character, and general matters of good and evil and
how we might respond to good and evil. In I’m thinking about how I can build on
this experience, and taking into account my goal as a person. That studying ethics
proved to be an invaluable experience to me in a few ways. First, this experienced
help
me
to
look
our
own
life
critically
and
to
evaluate
our
actions/choices/decisions. It assists a person in knowing what he/she really is and
what is best for him/her and what he/she has to do in order to attain it. Second, it
helps me to think better about morality. Moral philosophy can help us to clarify our
moral positions when we make judgements. It improves our perspective, and
makes it more reflective and better thought out. Lastly, this experienced help me to
sharpen my general thinking processes. It trains my mind to think logically and
reasonably and to handle moral issues with greater clarity. Ethics becomes
inevitable as by nature human being is a ‘social’ being, a being living in
relationship with other fellow beings and with the nature around. That I’ve learned
that all actions, whether one is aware of it or not, some way or another affects the
others.
In conclusion, if you do not study ethics, chances are you will have no
opportunity to carefully reflect on the values that shape your life, no chance to
think about whether the values in your society are wise or foolish, no chance to
expand your awareness of the values of other persons. As always, I sincerely
appreciate the guidance of our instructor to able to provide me this kind of
experienced and learning that I’ve learned from him though I didn’t really cope up
all of things that I’ve learned in this reflection paper but within my heart this
learning has hands-down improved my life academically, professionally, and
personally.