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Ethics Miranda Upload-Cotabato
Ethics Miranda Upload-Cotabato
Ethics Miranda Upload-Cotabato
MEANING, NATURE
AND SCOPE
CHAPTER I
ETYMOLOGICAL MEANING OF ETHICS
ETHICS: GREEK WORD “ETHOS”:
CUSTOM OR A PARTICULAR WAY
AND MANNER OF ACTING AND
BEHAVING.
LATIN: “MOS” OR “MORES”. ..
MORAL OR MORALITY
ETYMOLOGICAL MEANING OF ETHICS
ETHICS AND
MORALITY: USE
INTECHANGEABLY
ETHICS AND MORALITY DISTINGISHED
ETHICS AND MORALITY: BOTH
DEAL WITH GOODNESS, BADNESS,
RIGHTNESS OR WRONGNESS OF
THE HUMAN ACT OR HUMAN
CONDUCT
IN ETHICS: STUDIES MORALITY
ETHICS AND MORALITY DISTINGISHED
MORALITY: GIVES ETHICS A
PARTICULAR PERSPECTIVE OF WHAT
TO STUDY ABOUT- THE RECTITUDE OF
WHETHER AN ACT IS GOOD OR BAD,
RIGHT OR WRONG.
PROVIDES WITH A QUALITY THAT
DETERMINES AND DISTINGUISHES
RIGHT CONDUCT FROM WRONG
CONDUCT.
ETHICS: A PHILOSOPHY OF ACTION
Knowing and doing: knowledge and
action.
The “learning” of ethics does not
actually guarantee morality on the part
of the person’s concrete and practical
conduct and behavior.
Farthest distance: to cross between
the head and the heart.
ETHICS: A PHILOSOPHY OF ACTION
Ethics: (theory) provides
as a way of life.
Intimate connection with
the daily lives.
interaction between
knowledge and practice.
ETHICS: A PRACTICAL DISCIPLINE
Knowledge serves
practice, for each other
new truth learned is a
new reason for a better
life.
ETHICS: A PRACTICAL DISCIPLINE
Knowing what is right
without actually
changing the way we
behave morally is
nothing but useless
knowledge.
Importance of Studying
Ethics
1.
Without moral
perception, man is only an
animal. Without morality,
man as rational and free
being is a failure.
(deterioration)…
Importance of Studying
Ethics
2. good life:
idea of right and
wrong, good and
evil…..
Importance of Studying
Ethics
3. making choices and
decisions: Ethics as a
practical science.
We become good and bad
persons through the
choices we make.
Importance of Studying Ethics
4. Making moral decision
is often times difficult.
Confronted with moral
dilemmas. A need to pause and
reflect: Ethics provides with
moral paradigms.
Importance of Studying Ethics
5. Enable to reason
out moral beliefs and
of why one holds them.
to critically examine the ground and foundations of
one’s moral beliefs and claims, whether they are valid or not.
Importance of Studying
Ethics
6. Aids a person to widen one’s
horizon as to what is good and bad.
Exposures to ethical paradigms and
perspectives will naturally broaden
understanding and make us appreciate
the richness and diversity of ethical
views held by various thinkers.
Importance of Studying Ethics
Knowing the good is
MAJOR PARTS:
General Ethics
Special ( applied) Ethics
Kinds of Valuation and Types of Norms
Norm:
rule, standard, or measure.
it is something by which an
act or conduct is measured as
good or bad, right or wrong,
moral or immoral.
Kinds of Valuation and Types of Norms
The criteria of judgment about the
sorts of person one ought to be and
the sorts of action one ought to
perform.