Ethics

Republic of the Philippines

Commission on Higher Education
Samar Colleges, Inc.
Catbalogan City, Samar
Tel Nos. (055) 251-3021, 543-8321, Fax (055) 251-3021
College of Education

Prelim Assessment in GE 8: Ethics

Name: JUDY-ANN E. ADAY Date: Feb. 17, 2021

Course/Year/Major: BSED 2 - FILIPINO Subject / Schedule Code: GE 8: ETHICS / 20011

I. Are clothes a matter of pure aesthetic taste, or does it make sense for
clothes to become a subject in a discussion of ethics? Why? How about
other forms of adornment, such as tattoos and piercings? (15points)
Yes, because clothes can give a feeling to a person who wear it. For example it
was cold and you buy a Jacket and by the time you wear it you feel so nice and
the clothes feels warm. It makes you happy and you enjoyed wearing that
clothe. I can say too that other adornments is a matter of aesthetic taste
because it gives someone's feeling that Everytime they had it they feel beutiful
and they enjoying it.

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II. Imagine a scenario in which an image of someone who is the object of

religious devotion (such as Jesus Christ or Mary, the Mother of Jesus) is
placed side by side with a phallic image. Is this an ethical issue? Why or
why not? (15points)
Yes, it is an Ethical issue because the artist doesn't show consideration and
respect to other culture and religion. For me as an artist you must considered
the feeling and culture of everyone specially if you want to show it on public.
Some may see it as an art but some may fell disgrace and insult it.

III. Look for another example of an artistic creation—a painting, poem, or

song—that is a source of either actual or potential conflict between the
expression of the artist and a sensibility that finds this offensive. Attach
the art and present the significant details and the reasons that the
conflicting sides might have on this issue. (20points)

conflicting sides might have on the issue.

The photo behind is the Chris Ofili’s mixed- media painting depicting The Holy
Virgin Mary. Ofili’s oeuvre portrays Mary wearing a blue cape parted to reveal a
breast made of dried and varnished elephant dung., Mary is surrounded by
angels—only here they are drawn in the shape of genitalia. And the 8-foot-high
canvas is propped on two lumps of dried dung.

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According to the New Testament Mary is the mother of Jesus. She was an
ordinary Jewish woman of Nazareth, and she was impregnated by Gon in sinless
way. For my own opinion this photo is really offensive especially to the Christian
and to the follower of Virgin Mary not just only because of the way it is being
paint but because of the material that is used which is the Elephant Manure,
though it can lessen the trash but I don’t think it wasn’t right or appropriate to
use especially in an image of Virgin Mary ,where Christian know her as pure-
heart and sinless mother of God.

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