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Unit 2 - GGSR
Unit 2 - GGSR
Unit Title
Unit 2- The Relationship of Ethics with other Sciences and other Phases of
Human Life
IV. Introduction
At its simplest, ethics is a system of moral principles. They affect how people
make decisions and lead their lives. Ethics is concerned with what is good for
individuals and society and is also described as moral philosophy. The term is
derived from the Greek word ethos which can mean custom, habit, character or
disposition. Ethics covers the following dilemmas: (1) how to live a good life; (2) our
rights and responsibilities; (3) the language of right and wrong; and (4) moral
decisions - what is good and bad?
In this lesson, we will learn that ethics is based on well-founded standards of right
and wrong that prescribe what humans ought to do, usually in terms of rights,
obligations, benefits to society, fairness, or specific virtues. Ethics is two things. First,
ethics refers to well-founded standards of right and wrong that prescribe what
humans ought to do, usually in terms of rights, obligations, benefits to society,
fairness, or specific virtues. Ethics, for example, refers to those standards that
impose the reasonable obligations to refrain from rape, stealing, murder, assault,
slander, and fraud.
V. Objectives/Competencies
VI. Pre-test
TRUE OR FALSE: Write True if the statement is correct and False if not. Write your
answer on the space provided before the number.
_______1. A future employer usually evaluates a prospective employee’s attitude
before hiring them.
_______2. Successful careers just happen.
_______3. Business is a zero-sum game. For you to win, others must lose.
_______4. Behavior is your actions but does not include your attitude.
_______5. Mutual respect is needed when appropriately examining cultural and
racial diversity.
_______6. Ethics and morality are the same thing.
_______7. A correctional officer who engages in unethical behaviour for personal
gain is practicing official deviance.
_______8. Economics is the study of the choices that people make in an effort to
satisfy their needs and wants.
_______9. The study of values and principles governing personal relationships,
including ideals of autonomy, justice, and conduct is known as ethics.
______10. An employee pays a minimum fee for protective gear.
ACTIVITY
Read the statement and give your honest answer to the question:
If you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had eight children already, three who
were deaf, two who were blind, one physically disabled, and she had syphilis, would
you recommend that she have an abortion?
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ANALYSIS
In simple terms ethics is the science that tells a man how he can act correctly
with respect to morality, and logic can be termed as the science of only thinking
correctly. Ethics and logic are closely related to each other. Both deal with doing
things correctly.
Ethics Logic
Ethical principles help in dealing It is the field of philosophy that deals
with several sensitive issues, with rational thinking that leads to
which require you to think logically, argumentation.
with respect to emotional values.
Ethics provide different answers to a A logical appeal always appeals to the
single question and you have to brain and when your brain says that
choose the right option that would something is the right thing to do, it has
both satisfy you and be in an element of thought from all the angles,
accordance with morality. and is correct.
It benefits the society providing Logic tells us how you can think
well founded standards of right or practically.
wrong.
Ethics deal with some standards There has to be a sensible reasoning
that include the virtues of honesty, behind our moves and actions, and this
compassion, and loyalty sensibility is described by the logical
thinking of the individual.
An ethical appeal always appeals to Logical thinking makes the person
the sense of right and wrong. survive the race for life.
Ethics concerns right conduct, as logic relates to right reasoning. Where logic
deals with the reasoning process pertaining to the truth or falsehood of statements,
ethics deals with the rightness or wrongness of actions. Both logic and ethics
presuppose that truth and goodness are real, and that reasoning logically or ethically
can bring us closer to the ideal or the standard. Christians believe that God is the
author of Truth and Goodness, and that there are absolute standards to which we
can aspire.
Ethical reasoning and reflection is only as good as its standard for what
constitutes true goodness. Today, much ethical reflection is proffered that admits to
no absolute moral standard, and is thus self-refuting. For instance, if one thinks that
there is no absolute moral standard for what constitutes right conduct, then any
conclusion about some action being immoral is only a matter of one’s personal
opinion or taste. Even the sacrifice of innocent children, then, might be perfectly
justifiable in some cultures, but I just find it personally distasteful. I could decide to
sacrifice you to my gods and you cannot say that what I do is wrong in any
meaningful way. All you can do is seek a practical escape, and to run when you see
me coming with my knife (Paul & Elder, 2019).
Ethics is the science of the ultimate good. It searches for the ideals of human
behavior; it decides the good or bad of our volition. In the light of the ultimate good, it
tells us about the volitions we should practice and the ones we should abstain from.
But before we know this we must know how we do come to have our volitions. This
is where psychology comes in. It tells us how we will.
Thus, ethics depends upon psychology for knowing the psychological basis of
ethical sense. Before arriving at the ethical ‘ought’ it is necessary to have a
psychological study of the nature and structure of volition, and its relation to the
motivating causes of activity, desire, reason, intentions, difference between ethical
and unethical acts, nature of conscience, relation between intelligence and volition,
freedom of will and other activities. Any doubtful or incomplete knowledge of these
would lead to faulty imagination of the perfect good (Duncan & Geist, 2020).
Correct ethics can be based only upon correct psychology. In this way, ethics
and psychology are intimately related. A complete psychological analysis of the
ethical situation is essential for ethical decision. It is difficult to make ethics practical
and to understand the ethical situation without knowledge of psychology.
Ethics is the science which discusses the good or bad of human conduct
which is not possible without society which is studied by sociology. There being a
relation between the individual and society, ethics and sociology related. Man cannot
even be imagined outside society. He acquires his concepts of good and bad, duty
or non-duty, virtue, vice and convention from society. The mental and ethical
development of the individual depends very much upon society. Man does not do
goods acts because God wants such acts or that they are essential for living in
society but rather because society accepts them as good and the ethical thoughts
related to such conduct are inherent in social institutions.
1. Normative science study ideals and positive sciences study facts. Sociology gives
factual knowledge of social relations while ethics is ideals. It decides the good and
bad in social conventions, habits, traditions, etc.
2. Sociology is a comparatively theoretical study while ethics very much affects our
practical life. It tries to seek the ultimate good and in its light makes judgements
concerning virtues, duties, good and bad in social institutions, conventions, authority
and economic and political laws, etc. In the form of the science of ethical ideals it is
also related to philosophy.
6. Ethics gives them their places in the world and comparing them to the ultimate
good, describe ethical facts. Sociology studies the external behaviour of man, while
ethics emphasizes the internal aspect. Thus, ethics cannot be said to be a branch of
sociology.
Economics studies the objects which fulfill human desire. The subject of
ethics is the ultimate good. Ethics will evaluate economic objects because it wants
complete emancipation of the man. The propriety of economic good is based upon
the ultimate good. It, of itself, does not have any intrinsic value. As such economics
depends upon ethics. Secondly, for means to mass welfare, economics should
proceed on ethical laws.
Ana worked hard and earned Php10 million by the time she was forty. She is
now in semiretirement, enjoying the good life of travel, building her dream home,
managing her investments, and spending time with her family and friends. Jane, by
contrast, inherited Php10 million at age forty, gave Php9.9 million away to charity,
and lives frugally on the remaining money. Which woman is more morally admirable?
Elaborate your answer.
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I. Title of the Lesson:
Lesson 2. Ethics and other phases of human life.
In this lesson, we will learn that ethical standards include those that enjoin virtues
of honesty, compassion, and loyalty. And, ethical standards include standards
relating to rights, such as the right to life, the right to freedom from injury, and the
right to privacy. Such standards are adequate standards of ethics because they are
supported by consistent and well-founded reasons.
IV. Objectives/Competencies
1. Learn the relation of ethics to religion.
2. Identify some universal principles that apply across all professions.
3. Know the benefits of professional codes of conduct.
4. Discuss the difference between ethics and etiquette.
5. Understand the importance of ethics in education.
It is true that God cannot be bound by any law of ‘ought’ but even then if
ethics is not subjective or a mere faith, God should tend towards good. A
fundamental postulate of ethics is the moral order of the universe. Morality is
objective. God himself is a treasure house of ethical qualities. He orders well and
rejects evil. Ethics is based not on His absolute desire but on His ethical nature.
Activities are not good or bad because religious texts say so but the goodness or
badness of activities lies in the recognition or knowing God’s order and mandate.
Neither religion nor ethics can stay if God is believed to be either unethical or
indifferent to morality. Religion satisfies the emotional aspect of man. Ethics satisfies
the volitional aspect of man. If the complete and all round development of man are
desirable ethics and religion should be complementary.
The basis of moral obligation can neither be man nor society. The individual is
the source of moral obligation when he realizes the true soul when the soul is truly
recognized, on difference between it and God remains, everything in the world also
appearing as God. At that stage, man spontaneously becomes ethical. Moral
obligation becomes the normal law of everything internal and external. In such stage,
the volitions of the individual become identical with God’s will. But this does not
destroy his freedom. Real freedom lies in becoming God’s tool because God is the
self. His law of the law of self and real freedom is in proceeding along the law of the
self (Oxfeld, 2020).
Thus, the view that both religion and morality are based on each other is
better than both the foregoing one-sided viewpoints; Religion is the ideal basis of
ethics- Moral is the expression, in society, of our spiritual consciousness. A person
who sees God in every object turns to social service unconsciously. A truly religious
person sees the entire world permeated by God. Religion and ethics both make
important contributions to the development of the human personality. Their sources
are different. Religion is concerned with the relations between God and the
individual.
Ethics depends upon volitions and religion upon psychic emotions. In human
development, both ethics and religion develop side by side and influence each other.
It is possible that in some circumstances religion may be unethical, in which case it
would be inappropriate to call it a true religion. A true religion is faith hi the realization
of God and state of God realization cannot be unethical. Religious fulfilment satisfies
our whole, personality. Thus, it must be ethical, because without being ethical it
cannot satisfy our volition aspect Emotion without action is one-sided and lifeless.
Religion is incomplete without ethics. Thus ethics acts upon religion and makes it
pure and refined. Religion reacts upon ethics and motivates it. Neither ethics can
replace religion nor can religion substitute ethics (Fischer, 2020).
Honesty
Trustworthiness
Loyalty
Some Universal Ethical Respect for Others
Principles that Apply Across
All Professions Adherence to the Law
Doing Good and Avoiding Harm
to Others
Accountability
Code of Ethics and Code of Conduct are the standards that a group must
adhere to, so as to remain the member of the organization.
BASIS FOR
CODE OF ETHICS CODE OF CONDUCT
COMPARISON
ABSTRACTION
Read the scenario and answer the following questions: (10 points)
You and a partner are working on a project at school. Your partner approaches you
two days before the project is due and shows you that he has completed it on his
own. The guidelines were that the two of you work on the project equally. He tells
you not to worry about it and to just go along because “no one will ever know.”
1. Are you wrong to skate by, letting your partner do the work, even if he is okay
with it?
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Make an essay for not more than 200 words for any of these topics:
A. Should we Admire Hard Workers who are Motivated to Make Large Profits?
B. Does Competition Bring out the Best in People?
C. What is the Standard of Good?
D. How does One Establish that something is Good?
VII. Post-test
Identify the following: Write your answer on the space provided before the number.
______________________1. It is the readiness for achievement of the truth and
undertaking responsibility in the future life, and
manifestation of talents and realization of internal
powers.
_________________________2. It studies the economic activities of man, in which the
subject matter are the problems concerning the
production, distribution, and consumption of goods
which satisfy desire.
______________________3. It is the science that tells a man how he can act
correctly with respect to morality.
______________________4. It indicates the way of behaving politely and properly
in a social setting. It is the accepted code of behavior.
______________________5. It is a directional document containing specific
practices and behavior, that are followed or restricted
under the organization.
______________________6. It is a systematic set of universally accepted rules and
regulation created by an appropriate authority such as
government, which may be regional, national,
international, etc.
______________________7. It is the field of philosophy that deals with rational
thinking that leads to argumentation.
______________________8. It is a natural human tendency and it may take any
form of manifestation and based upon emotion.
______________________9. It studies ethical ideals only in the form of mental
facts.
_____________________10. It is a comparatively theoretical study that gives
factual knowledge of social relations
VIII. REFERENCES