MOUNTAIN VIEW COLLEGE

College Heights, Mt. Nebo, Valencia City, Bukidnon, Philippines

Christian Ethics with Stewardship
SEATWORK 1

Name: Virginia M. Songcal Date: September 9, 2021

ESSAY: Minimum of 5 sentences per question.

1. How would you answer the question “Why be moral?”

Being moral will provide us satisfaction and peace of mind by meeting

our innermost needs. We should be moral simply because it is always the
case, given the centrality of the social self and interpersonal connections in
doing such acts. Morality is our own system for determining what is good and
bad. It is our own perception of what is good and bad. And our actions are all
founded on our moral convictions. We do and do not act in accordance with
our beliefs about what is good and wrong.

2. How would you distinguish between ethics and morality?

Morals and ethics are two ideas that are closely connected. Morals
refers to guiding principles, while ethics refers to particular laws and acts, or
behaviors. A moral precept is a belief or point of view that is motivated by a
desire to do good. An ethical code is a collection of principles that determine
what acts are permissible and what behavior is acceptable. When it comes to
deciding what is good and evil, morality lends a hand by providing
improvements. Ethics is the study of behavior, whereas morality is the
practical direction for that behavior.

3. How is ethics important in the fields such as business, medicine and

politics?

Overall, ethics are important in the fields of business, medicine, and

politics. From a business stand point ethics are important because “they are
the critical, structured examination of how people and institutions should
behave in the world of commerce.” In medicine ethics are important due to
the point that they insure that the medicine are morally prepared correctly.
Ethics is important in the field of politics, due to the point of it being to make
ethical judgments about political activities, actions and polices that are used
to obtain and secure power in a government or to influence a government.
Therefore, ethics are important.
4. How would you describe the relationship between morality and law?

Law and morality are intimately related to each other. Laws are
generally based on the moral principles of society. Both regulate the conduct
of the individual in society. Law embodies within its moral principles,
protects and guarantees fundamental moral values, and at the same time its
fundamental force is given by its moral obligation. For legal rules to be
effective, they must comply with moral standards that are accepted by their
recipients. Influence each other to a great extent. Laws, to be effective, must
represent the moral ideas of the people. But good laws sometimes serve to
rouse the moral conscience of the people and create and maintain such
conditions as may encourage the growth of morality. Popular conception of
the connection between law and morality is that in some way the law exists
to promote morality, to preserve those conditions which make the moral life
possible, and then to enable men to lead sober and industrious lives. The
average man regards law as justice systematized, and justice itself as a mass
of moral principles.

5. How would you say to someone who maintains that you can’t legislate
morality?

You can’t legislate morality’ actually means ‘You shouldn’t make laws
based on your morality, but on mine instead.’ Even if you think a law is
morally correct, you shouldn’t fool yourself into thinking that making it a law
will change everyone’s actions. If we thought it was that simple, we wouldn’t
have police and other enforcers. It takes much more than a piece of paper to
change people’s hearts and to get them to even attempt to readjust their
moral compass. That’s because of two reasons: Everyone has their own
definition of what is right and what is wrong, so your moral code may have
no meaning to them. Even when we agree that something is morally wrong,
we often find ourselves making excuses for why we did it. I’ve yet to meet
anyone in the flesh who could hold onto their morality under any
circumstance, and I’ve heard of few.