(Section C) Monday and Wednesday 4:30 To 6:30pm
(Section C) Monday and Wednesday 4:30 To 6:30pm
(Section C) Monday and Wednesday 4:30 To 6:30pm
A. BASIC CONCEPTS
1. What are moral standards, and how they differ from other rules of lives?
2. Moral vs. moral standards
3. What are dilemmas?
4. Three levels of moral dilemmas
5. Foundation of morality: Freedom-responsibility for one’s act to others
6. Why is freedom crucial in our ability to make moral decisions?
7. What is the advantage of owning moral standards over merely abiding by moral standards?
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B. THE MORAL AGENT
1. How does culture shape moral behavior?
2. Why should culture not be the ultimate determinant of values?
3. Is there a Filipino understanding of right and wrong? Why this
interpretation? What are its influences?
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C. CULTURE IN MORAL BEHAVIOR
1. Culture and its role in moral behavior
2. What is cultural relativism? Why it is not tenable in ethics?
3. Are there an Asian and a Filipino understanding of moral behavior?
Strengths and weaknesses?
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D. THE MORAL AGENT: DEVELOPING VIRTUE AS A HABIT
1. How is a Moral Character developed?
2. Moral Development
3. The stages of Moral Development; How do we get to the highest level,
conscience-based moral decisions?
MIDTERMS
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G. REASON AND IMPARTIALITY AS MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
FOR MORALITY
1. Reason and impartiality defined
2. The 7-step moral reasoning model
MIDTERMS
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H. MORAL COURAGE
1. Why the will is as important as reason
2. Developing the will
PRE-FINALS
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3. Utilitarianism
3.1 Origins and nature of theory
3.2. Business’s fascination with utilitarianism
4. Justice and fairness: Promoting the common good
4.1. The nature of the theory
4.2. Distributive justice
4.2.1. Egalitarian
4.2.2. Capitalist
4.2.3. Socialist
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J. THE CHALLENGES OF PURALISM AND FUNDAMENTALISM: THE
SEARCH FOR UNIVERSAL VALUES
1. Globalization and pluralism: New challenges to ethics
2. Challenges of filinnials
3. The religious response: The role of religion in ethics
GRADING SYSTEM:
REFERENCES:
● ETHICS In the Contemporary Perspectives
(ADDRESSING THE INSIGHTS OF THE NEW GENERAL EDUCATIONAL CURRICULUM)
CLASS CODE:
rlzs5iw
MEETCODE:
https://meet.google.com/lookup/fl3qd2yd6m?authuser=1&hs=179
DATE SCHEDULE
January 11, 2021 SYNCHRONOUS PRELIMS
January 13, 2021 ASYNCHRONOUS