ETHICS
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Refers to a set of principles of right conduct.
You need to decide what is right an what is
wrong, what is good and what is evil.
Refers to the evaluation of moral values,
principles and standards of human conduct
and its application in daily life to determine
acceptable human behavior.
Regulations or principles governing conduct
within a specific activity or sphere.
Morals
- Are the rules which people use to guide their
behavior and thinking.
- When an individual is dealing with, or
capable of distinguishing between, right or
wrong
CHARACTERISTIC OF MORAL STANDANRDS
✓ Involve serious wrongs or significant benefits
✓ Ought to be preferred to other values
✓ Not established by authority figures
✓ Have the trait of universalizability
✓ Based on impartial considerations
✓ Associated with special emotions and
vocabulary
NON-MORAL STANDARDS
CULTURE
- the cumulative deposit of knowledge,
experience, beliefs, values, attitudes,
meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of
time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the
universe, and material objects and
possessions acquired by a group of people
in the course of generations through
individual and group meaning.
MORAL STANDARD AS MORAL CONVENTION
AND SOCIAL CONDITIONING THEORY
CULTURE’S ROLE IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR
1. It’s a moral dilemma that are
experienced and resolved on the
individual level.
Ethics
Moral Dilemma
Personal Dilemma
Rules
2. It tells us what is or is not allowed in a
particular context or situation.
Ethics
Morality
Non-Moral Standard
Rules
3. These are rules that are unrelated to
moral or ethical considerations.
Non-Moral Standard
Personal Dilemma
Rules
Structural Dilemmas
4. Only they can possess or practice
values such as love, honor, social
relationships, forgiveness, compassion,
and altruism.
Ethics
Human being
Robot
Rules
5. It refers to cases involving network of
instructions and operative theoretical
paradigms.
Human being
Organizational Dilemma
Robot
Structural Dilemmas
6.It refers to ethical cases encountered
and resolved by social organizations.
Organizational Dilemmas
Personal Dilemmas
Structural Dilemmas
Taoism
7.This cannot be said to be moral for it
has no freedom or choice but to work
according to what is commanded based
on its built-in program.
Human being
Robot
Rules
Structural Dilemmas
8. It is described as a feeling of lowliness,
shame or embarrassment, and inhibition
or shyness which is experienced as
somewhat distressing.
Buddhism
Hiya
respect for elders
utang na loob
9.This religion focuses on the cultivation of
virtue and maintenance of morality.
Buddhism
Confucianism
Shintoism
Taoism
10.They are popular in killing perfectly
normal infants, especially girls.
Callatians
Egyptians
Eskimos
Greeks
11.It refers to the innate ability and trait of
Pilipinos to be courteous and
entertaining towards their guests.
amor propio
hospitality
pakikisama
utang na loob
12. The process by which individuals
acquire knowledge from others in the
groups to which they belong, as a
normal part of childhood.
conditioning
customization
enculturation
social learning
13. In Confucianism, it is the upholding of
righteousness and the moral disposition
to do good.
li
ren
yang
yi
14.It refers to the innate ability and trait of
Pilipinos to be courteous and
entertaining towards their guests.
amor propio
hospitality
pakikisama
utang na loob
15. The Indian tribe who believed that it was
right to eat the dead.
Callatians
Eskimos
Egyptians
Greeks
16.The philosopher who claims that
morality belongs to the same class as
mathematics.
Aristotle
C.S.Lewis
James Rachels
Richard Robinson
17.The American psychologist who is best
known for his theory of stages of moral
development
Lawrence Kohlberg
Jean Piaget
James Rachels
John Watson
18.The term “character” is derived from the
Greek word “charakter”, which was
initially used as a mark impressed upon
a coin.
True
False
19.In the process of moral development,
there is the circular relation between
acts that build character and moral
character itself.
True
False
20.An agent is not morally responsible for
having the moral character trait itself or
for the outcome of that trait.
True
False