This document provides an introduction to ethics. It begins by defining ethics as the discipline concerned with determining what is morally good or bad. It then outlines two objectives for the module: to understand the importance of ethics to philosophy and higher learning, and to learn about its contribution to human development. The document goes on to discuss how ethics helps distinguish humans from other animals and allows humans to make reasoned judgments. It also explores how ethics has developed over time and relates to other fields like psychology, sociology, economics, education, law, politics, art, and religion. Finally, it discusses the relationship between morality and human acts, and how ethics is used to determine whether acts are right or wrong.
This document provides an introduction to ethics. It begins by defining ethics as the discipline concerned with determining what is morally good or bad. It then outlines two objectives for the module: to understand the importance of ethics to philosophy and higher learning, and to learn about its contribution to human development. The document goes on to discuss how ethics helps distinguish humans from other animals and allows humans to make reasoned judgments. It also explores how ethics has developed over time and relates to other fields like psychology, sociology, economics, education, law, politics, art, and religion. Finally, it discusses the relationship between morality and human acts, and how ethics is used to determine whether acts are right or wrong.
This document provides an introduction to ethics. It begins by defining ethics as the discipline concerned with determining what is morally good or bad. It then outlines two objectives for the module: to understand the importance of ethics to philosophy and higher learning, and to learn about its contribution to human development. The document goes on to discuss how ethics helps distinguish humans from other animals and allows humans to make reasoned judgments. It also explores how ethics has developed over time and relates to other fields like psychology, sociology, economics, education, law, politics, art, and religion. Finally, it discusses the relationship between morality and human acts, and how ethics is used to determine whether acts are right or wrong.
This document provides an introduction to ethics. It begins by defining ethics as the discipline concerned with determining what is morally good or bad. It then outlines two objectives for the module: to understand the importance of ethics to philosophy and higher learning, and to learn about its contribution to human development. The document goes on to discuss how ethics helps distinguish humans from other animals and allows humans to make reasoned judgments. It also explores how ethics has developed over time and relates to other fields like psychology, sociology, economics, education, law, politics, art, and religion. Finally, it discusses the relationship between morality and human acts, and how ethics is used to determine whether acts are right or wrong.
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ETHICS
Week 1: Introduction to Ethics
Prepared by: Ms. Kimberly De Guzman Yoro
At the end of this module, you are expected to...
OBJECTIVES 1 Understand the importance of
Ethics to Philosophy to Higher Learning Learn its contribution to man's 2 development WHAT IS ETHICS? Ethics, also known as moral philosophy is the discipline concerned with what morally is good or bad and morally right or wrong.
By critical thinking it discerns
The quality of life a man lives men from brutes making them is a testament to man's mental decide better than mere a development. prior judgement. • Ethics is the primary vehicle for men to reach the very purpose of life - the pursuit of happiness. • Societies Enter are created to ensure their security from predators - real or title imagined, they have to create laws. • Ethics made men decide what is right or wrong guided by reason. • Human ethics are clouded by man's self-interest Enter that interpretation to law and order are like title finding a needle in a haystack. • Changes in the environment as well as the complexities of the human world altered the understanding of Ethics. ETHICS AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT • Humans are not born endowed with ethics (like an inherent characteristic), but rather their behavior jives with human development. • Man initially behaves like brutes, and under human development, he behaves less morally and more ethically. ETHICS MORALS
Ethics refers to rules provided by Morals refer to individual's own
external source, such as laws, codes principle regarding right and wrong. of conduct in a workplace or principles in religion.
• Ethics and morality are interchangeable for they pattern both human behavior, but in reality are different. • Ergo as man progressed, he deviates from his clouded personal beliefs to a more socially acceptable norm. • Ethical human behavior depend on two things: Personal Development and Human Development
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
-is the process of internalization of -is the combination of collective
values, judgement and thought; and personal development and social morally, is a transition from what we development should ought to do, to what is the best thing to do. • The ethics of human behavior ranges from the spectrum of low personal human development to high personal and human development. • In time, man's ethical development also will also serve as his transition from a self- indulging individual to a person endowed with knowledge that will aid him in his pursuit for happiness. THE SCOPE AND MEANING OF ETHICS
Prepared by: Ms. Kimberly De Guzman Yoro
A deeper understanding of Ethics • Ethics is a branch of Philosophy that studies human acts and human conduct. Although there are subjects that study human conduct such as Psychology and Sociology. Ethics has a deeper meaning in its standpoint by further delving into the aspect of human acts. They are more concerned with the morality of human acts.
Noted definition of Ethics
1. Ethics is the practical science of the morality of human actions 2. Ethics is the scientific inquiry into the principles of morality 3. Ethics is the study of human conduct from the standpoint of morality 4. Ethics is the science of human acts with reference of right and wrong Relation of Ethics with Other Sciences 1. Ethics and Logic – Logic is the science of right thinking and while Ethics is the science of right living. Thinking and Doing things go hand-in-hand, we cannot move without thinking right the same way every action is guided by reason. 2. Ethics and Psychology – The two subjects dealt with the study of man, human nature and human behavior but that is all their similarity ends. Psychology only tell us the causes of man’s actions that may be psychological or physiological but ethics tell us how man should react. Ethics is interested in moral obligation while Psychology ends there. 3. Ethics and Sociology – as we all know, Sociology deals with the study of society as well as the social order that regulates the society as a whole. But then what is the foundation of their social order if there is no basis of right and wrong which is Ethics. Any society is doomed to fail if devoid of correct basis of thinking. 4. Ethics and Economics – Napoleon once said that an army marches on its stomach, in relation to economics man has to fulfill is economic needs. The need for material wealth is inherent in man that there are instances that economic topics needed ethical principles such as capital-labor relations, profit, interests, money et al. The need to settle these conflicts must have ethical basis to incur equitable results.
Morality and Other Phases of Human Life
1. Ethics and Education – Education whether formal or informal is a never-ending process and is the foundation of man’s moral, intellectual and physical capacities. But then again education is illicit if it is not supported by ethics, they say ethics is life the same way education is intertwined with life. Learning is good but learning supported by ethics is better inasmuch as ethics is living right. 2. Morality and Law – as mentioned in the previous module, not everything moral is legal and not everything legal is moral. Meaning there are good things that do not need legislation and immoral acts that the State may approve. But to further differentiate them laws only used external acts while ethics cover man’s “acts” that play in his mind that will not incriminate him in any statute. 3. Ethics and Politics - Man in his constant search for happiness be it temporal or eternal is never ending. They say politics and ethics are poles apart – in a certain point that is correct it is the very reason why politics become dirty for they deviate from ethics. Man’s insatiable greed for wealth and power thru politics means absence of ethics. An ideal state should be an ethical state. 4. Ethics and Art – Ethics is about positive morality while art is beauty. Any work of art that is beautiful, will give a positive outlook to the looker that will be greatly appreciated. The purpose of art is for appreciation that is contributory to man’s ethics. 5. Religion and Ethics – Religion is ethics and ethics is religion, they are interchangeable for the any religious belief tends to ethical standards in relation to his most fundamental tenet. What unites them all boiled down to three things namely: a) belief in the Supernatural, b) man’s beginning and end and c) right living. Morality and Human Acts Morality is the quality of goodness or badness in a human act. In this case, we base judgement on any human act based on its ethicality. The quality of an act may be justified according to its gravity. An evil human act maybe considered “right” just as long as it can be justified which lead us to its norm of morality. By that term, we mean that the basis for determining its correctness are the standard of the judging party and the reason why an act is morally wrong or right.
Human Acts just like the word itself means actions of men that are done willfully and willingly. Keep in mind that scenarios beyond human control are not human acts such as rainfall, sunset, earthquake even the beating of the heart or blood circulation are beyond human act for these are actions man cannot control. In the case of assassinations where the culprit pulled the trigger, the gun is not to blame but the doer of the action that caused taking the life of another man. Once questioned he has the right to justify his action as either morally right or wrong. THANK YOU FOR LISTENING!
