JALDO, JEROME M.

BSCE-2C

ETHICS

ACTIVITY 5: CHAPTER 5

1. How can you be a genuine Filipino if you do not follow Filipino customs?

ANSWER:  

Following our customs does not make you a Filipino. It is by your heart and your
willingness to serve and perform your duties as a Filipino that make you a genuine citizen
of the country. You can be a foreigner and follow our customs but it does not make you a
Filipino unless you are a naturalized citizen of our country.

2. What is the distinction between a religious notion of sin and the Philosophical understanding of
immoral or unethical acts?

ANSWER:

In philosophical understanding of immortal or unethical acts generally revolve around treating

people equally and always as ends in themselves instead of a merely means to an end. No external
source of morality is required as it can be derived solely from our shared status as human beings.

3. How realistic Kohlberg ideal of higher stage of post conventional morality that of universal ethical
principles, given that feelings and emotions are inseparable from human choice.

ANSWER:

It is itself unrealistic. An ideal of principles need not concern itself with realism. Such
ideals are aspirations, goals, and directions of effort, not rules to obey.
The law has to attempt practical realism; a law left ignored or disobeyed fails its purpose.
Law can be broken; ideals cannot remain ideals even when remote.
4. Given that the human condition is one of finitude, how will you know that you are sufficiently
informed when you finally make your moral judgement

ANSWER:
Always take advice from reputable sources like people (professional or may experience),
books and maybe trusted website or any platform in social media. And as your conscience
begins to be rightly formed, your conscience will ‘accuse you’ if you are making the wrong
choice.
The more you form your conscience the better you know you are making a correct moral
judgment, however the more the risk as well, of feeling proud and think that you don’t
need advice anymore.
5. If a global ethic is current emerging does this mean that the true meaning or morality changes over
time please explain your answer.

ANSWER:

Moral is a matter of personal view and social influence. On the matter global ethics I am
skeptic as we have too different trends in terms of social equity, education, culture,
economic, and policies.) to expect homogeneity and we should not even if it sounds
pleasant. Instead all human being should participate in redefining what it is ethic and what
is morally acceptable or not. That is our responsibility as people, not corporations or mass
media one but ours.

6. Is there a difference between ones ethical responsibility toward fellow humans and toward
nonhuman nature? Please explain your answer?

ANSWER:

NO, there should be no difference between ones ethical responsibility towards fellow
human and non-human nature. Because everything in this world is equally important. We
exist for each other, the absence of one affects greatly the other ones. This only means that
if you show ethical responsibility fellow people, you should also show ethical responsibility.