What are the burial practices in

your locality?
What comes to your
mind when you hear the
word culture?
Culture and
Moral
Behavior
 It is an integrated pattern of human
Culture knowledge, beliefs and behaviors. It
consists of language, ideas, customs,
morals, laws, taboos, institutions,
tools, techniques, and works of art,
rituals and other capacities and
habits acquired by a person as a
member of society.
 Culture is Culture is passed
categorized into on to by learning
material and non- and not through
material culture genes or heredity
 Enculturation – the process of learning from
infancy till death the components of life in
Cultures one’s culture. The contents of this learning
change includes the material and non-material culture.
In the process of of learning, a person grows
(dynamic) or into a culture, acquires competence in that
evolve culture and that culture takes root in that
person and becomes the cognitive map, the
term of reference for acting (Margaret Mead)
 Inculturation - the missiological
process in which the Gospel is
rooted in a particular culture and
the latter is transformed by its
Cultures change introduction to Christianity
or evolve Pope John Paul II: the intimate
transformation of authentic
cultural values through their
integration in Christianity and the
insertion of Christianity in the
various human cultures.
 Acculturation – the “cultural
Cultures modification of an individual,
group, or people by adapting to or
change borrowing traits from another
or evolve culture” or the “merging of
cultures as a result of prolonged
contact”
Culture and the
Moral Agent
• The person as a moral agent is born into
a culture.
• Culture influences the human person.
• Culture affects human behavior. Not all
cultural practices are morally
acceptable.
 • It is the idea that a person’s
beliefs, values, and practices
Cultural should be understood based on
that person’s own culture,
Relativism rather than be judged against
criteria of another.
 Cultural Relativism
the view that moral or ethical systems, which vary from culture to
culture, are all equally valid and no one system is really “better” than
any other (denies ethnocentrism and xenocentrism)

No ultimate standard of good or evil, so every judgement about right

or wrong is a product of society. (levirate marriage)
Role of Culture in Moral Behavior

It influences human behavior In spite of our cultural

at any given society’s belief
system, laws, mores, practices,
language and attitudinal
variables which make a people
unique from others.
uniqueness and differences,
people can still exercise their
power to choose what is
morally right and morally
wrong.
Is this culture-based?

Be honest
even if others are not,
even if others will not
even if others cannot.
 In spite of cultural relativism,
there are values that are
universal for human survival.
Universal
Values Universal values are the
ultimate bases for living and
learning how to live together.
(UDHR)
What have you learned from
today’s lesson?
For asynchronous activity
• Group Activity: Research on the topic strength and weaknesses of the
Filipino character and values. Make a storybook highlighting Filipino
values that contribute to our strength of character as a people. The story
book should be intended for children ages 12 years old and below and
could be written in Hiligaynon, Filipino or English. Identify the value focus
of your story. It would be helpful if the story would also include themes on
stewardship.
Content (focus on values/sequencing) - 50
Creativity (attractiveness/graphics/pictures) - 25
Originality (original ideas/drawings) - 25
If you have lifted some graphics from the net, please provide proper
citation. Also, list down the group members and their participation in the
group output.
 • Individual Activity:

Looking at the situation of the

For current Philippine society,
identify five Filipino values that
asynchronous you think need to be
activity strengthened to address the
challenges faced by our society.
Explain how you are
reflecting/can reflect this in
your life.